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 "id": "place/bahirat-zughar",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bahirat-zughar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بحيرة زغر",
  "en": "Lake Zughar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "البحيرة الميتة التي يصفها الإدريسي بأنها لا يعيش فيها شيء، وكانت فيها مدينتان لقوم لوط، وتبعد عن ريحا وتسمى البحيرة الميتة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 355}",
  "en": "The dead lake, which al-Idrisi describes as having no living thing in it; it is where two towns of Lot's people were sunk, and it lies near Riha. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 355}"
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 355 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
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   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بحيرة زغر: البحيرة الميتة التي يصفها الإدريسي بأنها لا يعيش فيها شيء، وكانت فيها مدينتان لقوم لوط، وتبعد عن ريحا وتسمى البحيرة الميتة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.355}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bahirat-zughar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Lake Zughar: the Dead Sea, which al-Idrisi describes as a place where nothing lives. Two cities of the people of Lot were in it. It lies away from Rihā, and it is called the Dead Sea. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.355}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bahirat-zughar",
    "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": "بحیرۂ زغر وہ مردار جھیل ہے جسے ادریسی ایسی جگہ بتاتے ہیں جہاں کوئی جاندار نہیں رہتا۔ یہاں قومِ لوط کی دو بستیاں تھیں۔ یہ ریحا سے دور ہے اور اسے بحیرۂ میت بھی کہا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.355}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bahirat-zughar",
    "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"
 }
}