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 "id": "place/zaranj",
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  "ar": "زرنج",
  "en": "Zaranj"
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  "ar": "زرنج مدينة سجستان الكبرى؛ حاصرها الربيع بن زياد فصالحه مرزبانها أبرويز على ألف وضيف مع كل وصيف جام من ذهب بعد أن أجلسه على جثة قتيل وكانت ولاية الربيع بها سنتين ونصفاً سبى فيها أربعين ألف رأس ثم حصر ابن سمرة مرزبانها يوم عيدهم فصالحه على ألفي ألف درهم وألفي وصيف.",
  "en": "Zaranj, the great city of Sijistan; besieged by al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad its marzban Aparwiz truced for a thousand wadif with gold cups — seated on a corpse — in a two-and-a-half-year governorship that took forty thousand captives; then Ibn Samura besieged its marzban on their feast-day for two million dirhams and two thousand wadif."
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  "persia-central-asia"
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 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "زرنج هي مدينة سجستان الكبرى في رواية البلاذري. وقد ورد ذكرها في حصارين متتاليين. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حصار الربيع بن زياد",
     "markdown": "حاصرها الربيع بن زياد، فصالحه مرزبانها أبرويز على ألف وصيف، مع كل وصيف جام من ذهب. ويذكر البلاذري أن الربيع أجلسه على جثة قتيل. كانت ولاية الربيع بها سنتين ونصفاً، سبى فيها أربعين ألف رأس. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حصار ابن سمرة",
     "markdown": "ثم حصر ابن سمرة مرزبانها يوم عيدهم، فصالحه على ألفي ألف درهم وألفي وصيف. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}\n\nيحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: رقم الصفحة والتواريخ."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/zaranj",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Zaranj is the great city of Sijistan according to al-Baladhuri's report. It is mentioned in two successive sieges. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The siege of al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad",
     "markdown": "Al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad besieged it, and its marzban Abruwiz made peace with him for a thousand servants, with each servant a golden cup (jam). Al-Baladhuri mentions that al-Rabi' had him sit on the corpse of a slain man. Al-Rabi's governorship there lasted two and a half years, and he took forty thousand heads as captives. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The siege of Ibn Samura",
     "markdown": "Then Ibn Samura besieged its marzban on their festival day, and he made peace with him for two million dirhams and two thousand servants. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}\n\nAn additional source is needed: the page number and the dates."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/zaranj",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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