{
 "id": "place/black-sea-bontic",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "black-sea-bontic",
 "label": {
  "ar": "البحر البنطسي",
  "en": "al-Baḥr al-Buntusi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بحر خليجي كبير يتصل بالبحر المظلم، تطل عليه بلاد هرقل والبنطيم والخزرية والقمانية والروسية، ومبدؤه من جوار القسطنطينة {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 905}.",
  "en": "A large gulf-like sea joined to the Dark Sea, bordered by the lands of Heraclius, the Bentim, the Khazars, the Qumans and the Rus, beginning near Constantinople {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 905}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "sea",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 905 (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": "البحر البنطسي بحر خليجي كبير يتصل بالبحر المظلم. تطل عليه بلاد هرقل والبنطيم والخزرية والقمانية والروسية، ومبدؤه من جوار القسطنطينة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.905}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/black-sea-bontic",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Pontic Sea: a large gulf-like sea connected to the Sea of Darkness. The lands of Heraclius, the Bontim, the Khazariyya, the Qumaniyya and the Russians overlook it, and its source is near Constantinople. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.905}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/black-sea-bontic",
    "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": "بحرِ بنطس ایک بڑا خلیجی سمندر ہے جو تاریک سمندر سے جا ملتا ہے۔ اس کے کناروں پر ہرقل کی سرزمین، بنطیم، خزریہ، قمانیہ اور روسیہ واقع ہیں، اور اس کا آغاز قسطنطنیہ کے نواح سے ہوتا ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.905}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/black-sea-bontic",
    "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"
 }
}