{
 "id": "place/buwsir",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "buwsir",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بوصير",
  "en": "Buwsir"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة صغيرة على الشمال من النيل، ويحكى أن أكثر محرة فرعون كانوا منها، وذكر المؤلف أن بقية من طلاب السحر ما زالت فيها {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 124}.",
  "en": "A small town north of the Nile. The author reports that many of Pharaoh's magicians were said to come from it, and that remnants of students of magic remained there {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 124}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 117-126 (scan pages)",
   "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": "بوصير مدينة صغيرة على الشمال من النيل، بحسب الإدريسي. يُحكى أن أكثر سحرة فرعون كانوا منها، وذكر المؤلف أن بقية من طلاب السحر ما زالت فيها. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.124}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/buwsir",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Buwsir: a small city on the north bank of the Nile, according to al-Idrisi. It is told that most of the sorcerers of Pharaoh were from it, and the author reports that a remnant of students of magic still remains in it. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.124}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/buwsir",
    "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": "بوصیر نیل کے شمال میں ایک چھوٹا شہر ہے، ادریسی کے مطابق۔ روایت ہے کہ فرعون کے بیشتر جادوگر یہیں سے تھے، اور مصنف نے ذکر کیا کہ جادو کے طالب علموں کی ایک باقیات اب بھی یہاں موجود ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.124}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/buwsir",
    "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"
 }
}