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 "id": "place/arzan-al-rum",
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 "slug": "arzan-al-rum",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أرز الروم",
  "en": "Arzan al-Rum"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أرز الروم (أرزروم) مدينة أرمينية إسلامية على حدود بلاد الروم؛ في سنة خمس وستمائة نازلتها الكرج فافتتحوها بالسيف وأحرقوها على ما في نسخة الشذرات واسمها فيها «أرحلس» {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 22}.",
  "en": "Arzan al-Rum (Erzurum), the Muslim Armenian city on the Byzantine marches; in 605 the Georgians besieged, stormed and burned it — the manuscript reads the name 'Arhalis' {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 22}."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
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 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  39.9086,
  41.2758
 ],
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   39.9086,
   41.2758
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب ج٥ ص 22 (AAlexandrina-001518)؛ الإحداثيات من GeoNames (Erzurum)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  },
  "sources": [
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); coordinates from GeoNames; descriptive facts to be checked against reference works"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "أرز الروم (أرزروم) مدينة أرمينية إسلامية على حدود بلاد الروم؛ في سنة خمس وستمائة نازلتها الكرج فافتتحوها بالسيف وأحرقوها، على ما في نسخة الشذرات واسمها فيها «أرحلس» {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 22}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/arzan-al-rum",
    "lang": "ar"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Arzan al-Rum (Erzurum), an Islamic Armenian city on the border of the land of Rum; in 605 the Georgians besieged it and took it by the sword and burned it — per the Shadharat copy where its name appears as \"Arhalas\" {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 22}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/arzan-al-rum",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "ارض الروم (ارضروم)، بلاد روم کی سرحد پر ایک اسلامی آرمینیائی شہر؛ 605ھ میں کرج (گرجیوں) نے اس کا محاصرہ کیا اور تلوار سے فتح کر کے جلا دیا — شذرات کی نقل کے مطابق جس میں اس کا نام «ارحلس» ہے {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 22}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/arzan-al-rum",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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   "to": "event/georgians-arzan-rum-605",
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   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/shihab-arzan-627",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
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  }
 ],
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  "event/georgians-arzan-rum-605",
  "event/shihab-arzan-627"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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