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 "id": "place/alwa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "alwa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "علوة",
  "en": "Alwa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة في أرض النوبة على ضفة النيل، تقع أسفل من دنقلة بمسيرة خمسة أيام، ويعيش أهلها من الزراعة والصيد والتجارة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38}",
  "en": "A town in Nubia on the bank of the Nile, five days' journey below Dunqula. Its people live by farming, fishing and trade. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 38 (scan pages)",
   "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": "مدينة في أرض النوبة على ضفة النيل، تقع أسفل من دنقلة بمسيرة خمسة أيام. ويعيش أهلها من الزراعة والصيد والتجارة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/alwa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A city in the land of Nubia on the bank of the Nile, lying five days' journey below Dongola. Its people live by farming, hunting and trade. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/alwa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نوبہ کی سرزمین میں نیل کے کنارے ایک شہر، جو دنقلہ سے پانچ دن کی مسافت پر نیچے کی طرف واقع ہے۔ یہاں کے لوگ کھیتی باڑی، شکار اور تجارت سے گزارا کرتے ہیں۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 38}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/alwa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}