{
 "id": "place/babil",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "babil",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بابل",
  "en": "Babil (Babylon)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قرية صغيرة كانت قبل مدينة كبيرة، ويذكر الإدريسي أنها كانت مصراً عظيماً في أزمنة قديمة، وأن نصف قدرها قطر صغير الآن. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 670}",
  "en": "A small village that was once a great city; al-Idrisi says it was an old great capital, and that it is now a small place. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 670}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 670 (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": "بابل قرية صغيرة كانت قبل ذلك مدينة كبيرة. يذكر الإدريسي أنها كانت مصراً عظيماً في أزمنة قديمة، وأن نصف قدرها قطر صغير الآن. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/babil",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Babil: a small village that was formerly a great city. al-Idrisi reports that it was once a great capital in ancient times, and that half of its size is now a small district. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/babil",
    "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": "بابل ایک چھوٹا گاؤں ہے جو پہلے ایک بڑا شہر تھا۔ ادریسی بیان کرتے ہیں کہ قدیم زمانے میں یہ ایک عظیم شہر تھا، اور آج اس کے رقبے کا نصف حصہ ایک چھوٹا سا علاقہ ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/babil",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-2-102",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}