{
 "id": "place/bilzama",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bilzama",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بلزمة",
  "en": "Bilzama"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حصن بمقربة من قسنطينة، له ربض وسوق وفيه آبار، في وسط فحص أفيح، وبناؤه من حجارة كبيرة، وأهله ذوو عزة ومنعة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 270}",
  "en": "A fortified town near Constantine with a suburb, a market and wells, set in a broad plain, built of large stones, its people proud and strong. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 270}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 270 (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": "بلزمة حصن بمقربة من [[place/constantine|قسنطينة]]، له ربض وسوق وآبار. يقع في وسط فحص أفيح، وبناؤه من حجارة كبيرة، ويصف الإدريسي أهله بأنهم ذوو عزة ومنعة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.270}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bilzama",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Bilzama: a fortress near [[place/constantine|Constantine]], with a suburb, a market and wells. It stands in the middle of a wide plain, and its building is of great stones. al-Idrisi describes its people as having honour and strength. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.270}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bilzama",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بلزمہ [[place/constantine|قسنطینہ]] کے قریب ایک قلعہ ہے، جس کے ساتھ بیرونی بستی، بازار اور کنویں ہیں۔ یہ ایک کشادہ میدان کے بیچ میں واقع ہے، اور اس کی تعمیر بڑے پتھروں سے ہوئی ہے۔ ادریسی یہاں کے باشندوں کو عزت دار اور مضبوط بتاتا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.270}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bilzama",
    "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"
 }
}