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 "id": "place/al-ahwaz",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-ahwaz",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأهواز",
  "en": "al-Ahwaz"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة تُعرف بهرموز شهر، وهي قاعدة بلاد خوزستان، موضعها فسيح وهواؤها صحيح، وفيها أرزاق دارة وخيرات جمة، وأهلها من مياسير العرب المتحضرين. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}",
  "en": "A city known as Hormuz-Shahr, the capital of Khuzistan, on a broad site with healthy air, abundant food and plenty; its people are wealthy and civilised. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 392 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الأهواز مدينة تُعرف بهرموز شهر، وهي قاعدة بلاد خوزستان. يصفها الإدريسي بأن موضعها فسيح وهواءها صحيح. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أهلها",
     "markdown": "يذكر الإدريسي أن فيها أرزاقاً دارّة وخيرات جمّة، وأن أهلها من مياسير العرب المتحضرين. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahwaz",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Ahwaz: a town known as Hormuz Shahr, and the capital of the land of Khuzistan. Al-Idrisi describes its site as spacious and its air as healthy. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its people",
     "markdown": "Al-Idrisi says that it has abundant livelihoods and many good things, and that its people are wealthy and civilised Arabs. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahwaz",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الاہواز ایک شہر ہے جو ہرمز شہر کے نام سے بھی جانا جاتا ہے، اور خوزستان کے علاقے کا مرکز ہے۔ ادریسی اس کا وصف بیان کرتے ہیں کہ اس کی جگہ کشادہ ہے اور ہوا صحت بخش ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اس کے باشندے",
     "markdown": "ادریسی بتاتے ہیں کہ یہاں وافر رزق اور بے شمار پیداوار ہے، اور یہاں کے باشندے عربوں کے خوشحال اور متمدن لوگوں میں سے ہیں۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 392}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ahwaz",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
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   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   "to": "event/ahwaz-sack-421",
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   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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  {
   "to": "event/conquest-of-ahwaz",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   "to": "event/zanj-sack-ahwaz-259",
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  "person/ibn-makula",
  "person/musa-ibn-bugha",
  "person/sahib-al-zanj",
  "person/sultan-al-dawla",
  "event/ahwaz-sack-421",
  "event/conquest-of-ahwaz",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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