{
 "id": "place/sirwah",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "sirwah",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صرواح",
  "en": "Sirwah"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عاصمة مكاربة سبأ في القرون التي خلت قبل سنة 650 ق.م في تقدير الرحيق المختوم؛ توجد أنقاضها على مسافة يوم إلى الجانب الغربي من مأرب وتُعرف باسم خريبة، وفي زمنها بدأ بناء سد مأرب.",
  "en": "Capital of the Sabaean mukarribs in the centuries before 650 BCE in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's reckoning; its ruins lie a day's journey west of Marib and are known as Kharibah; the Marib dam was begun in that age."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "coordinate_note": "لم تُحدَّد الإحداثيات بعد؛ الموقع الأثري غربي مأرب باليمن.",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الرحيق المختوم ص23 نقلاً عن تفهيم القرآن 4/195–198",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "raheeq-prose-batch-2a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/tafhim-al-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1); al-Raheeq al-Makhtum p. 23"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صرواح عاصمة مكاربة [[polity/kingdom-of-saba|سبأ]] في القرون التي خلت قبل سنة 650 ق.م في تقدير الرحيق المختوم؛ توجد أنقاضها على مسافة يوم إلى الجانب الغربي من [[place/marib|مأرب]] وتُعرف باسم خريبة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.23} {cite:tafhim-al-quran 4/195-198}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "السد",
     "markdown": "في زمن المكاربة بدأ بناء السد الذي عُرف ب[[building/marib-dam|سد مأرب]]، والذي له شأن كبير في تاريخ [[place/yemen|اليمن]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.23} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.24}. ثم ترك ملوك سبأ لقب «مكرب» واتخذوا مأرب عاصمة بدل صرواح {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.24}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "صرواح أول عاصمة لمملكة سبأ في اليمن قبل مأرب، وبقيت منها خرائب قديمة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sirwah",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sirwah was the capital of the Mukarribs of [[polity/kingdom-of-saba|Saba]] in the centuries before 650 BCE, by the estimate of al-Rahiq al-Makhtum. Its ruins lie a day's journey to the west of [[place/marib|Ma'rib]], and are known as Khuraybah. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.23} {cite:tafhim-al-quran 4/195-198}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The dam",
     "markdown": "In the time of the Mukarribs, construction began on the dam known as [[building/marib-dam|the Dam of Ma'rib]], which has a great place in the history of [[place/yemen|Yemen]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.23} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.24} Then the kings of Saba gave up the title \"Mukarrib\" and took Ma'rib as their capital instead of Sirwah. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.24}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Sirwah was the first capital of the kingdom of Saba in Yemen, before Ma'rib, and old ruins of it remain."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sirwah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/yemen",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/christianity-in-arabia",
  "concept/judaism-in-arabia",
  "event/abyssinian-occupation-of-yemen",
  "event/ali-expeditions-to-yemen",
  "event/first-abyssinian-occupation-of-yemen",
  "event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen",
  "event/persian-rule-of-yemen",
  "event/prophets-yemen-appointments"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}