{
 "id": "place/balanjar",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "balanjar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بلنجر",
  "en": "Balanjar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة ببلاد الخزر خلف باب الأبواب؛ إليها غزا عبد الرحمن بن ربيعة سنة ٣٢هـ فقتل أمامها وأخذ أهلها جسده فجعلوه في تابوت يستسقون به {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 503 v.2}.",
  "en": "A Khazar city beyond Derbent — where Abd al-Rahman ibn Rabi'a fell in AH 32 and where his body was kept in a coffin for rain-prayers {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir v.2 p. 503}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ لابن الأثير (ط دار الكتب) ج٢ ص 503",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kamil-v2-batch-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بلنجر: مدينة ببلاد الخزر خلف باب الأبواب؛ إليها غزا عبد الرحمن بن ربيعة سنة ٣٢هـ فقتل أمامها وأخذ أهلها جسده فجعلوه في تابوت يستسقون به {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 503 v.2}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/balanjar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Balanjar: a city in the land of the Khazars, behind the Gate of Gates. Abd al-Rahman ibn Rabi'a raided it in the year 32 AH and was killed before it, and its people took his body and placed it in a coffin, by which they asked for rain. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 503 v.2}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/balanjar",
    "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": "بلنجر خزر کی سرزمین میں باب الابواب کے پیچھے واقع ایک شہر ہے۔ اسی کی طرف عبد الرحمن بن ربیعہ نے 32 ہجری میں حملہ کیا۔ وہ اس کے سامنے شہید ہوئے، اور اس شہر کے لوگوں نے ان کا جسم ایک تابوت میں رکھا اور اس کے وسیلے سے بارش طلب کرتے رہے۔ {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 503 v.2}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/balanjar",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/balanjar-disaster-32",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/zafar-turk-balanjar",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/abd-al-rahman-ibn-rabia",
  "person/habib-ibn-maslama",
  "person/salman-ibn-rabi-a",
  "event/balanjar-disaster-32",
  "event/zafar-turk-balanjar"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}