{
 "id": "place/kisal",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "kisal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كسال",
  "en": "Kisal"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كسال مدينة بناها مروان بن محمد حين ولّي الثغر فنزلها — وهي من برذعة على أربعين فرسخاً ومن تفليس على عشرين فرسخاً — وانطلق منها فدخل أرض الخزر مما يلي باب اللان.",
  "en": "Kisal, the city Marwan ibn Muhammad built and made his seat when given the march — forty farsakhs from Bardha'a and twenty from Tiflis — and from it he set out to enter the Khazar land by way of Bab al-Lan."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 292",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-18"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كسال مدينة بناها [[person/marwan-ibn-muhammad|مروان بن محمد]] حين وُلّي الثغر، فنزلها. تبعد عن [[place/bardhaa|برذعة]] أربعين فرسخاً، وعن [[place/tiflis|تفليس]] عشرين فرسخاً. ومنها انطلق فدخل أرض الخزر مما يلي [[place/bab-al-lan|باب اللان]]، بحسب البلاذري. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.292} انظر [[event/marwan-caucasus-expedition|حملة مروان في القوقاز]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kisal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kisal is a town built by [[person/marwan-ibn-muhammad|Marwan ibn Muhammad]] when he was given charge of the frontier, and he lodged in it. It lies forty farsakhs from [[place/bardhaa|Bardhaa]] and twenty farsakhs from [[place/tiflis|Tiflis]]. From it he set out and entered the land of the Khazars on the side of the [[place/bab-al-lan|Gate of al-Lan]], according to al-Baladhuri. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.292} See [[event/marwan-caucasus-expedition|Marwan's campaign in the Caucasus]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kisal",
    "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": "کسال کا شہر [[person/marwan-ibn-muhammad|مروان بن محمد]] نے اس وقت بسایا جب انہیں سرحد کا والی بنایا گیا، اور وہ یہیں ٹھہرے۔ یہ [[place/bardhaa|برذعہ]] سے چالیس فرسخ اور [[place/tiflis|تفلیس]] سے بیس فرسخ کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ بلاذری کے مطابق وہ یہیں سے نکلے اور [[place/bab-al-lan|باب اللان]] کی جانب سے خزر کی سرزمین میں داخل ہوئے۔ {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.292} دیکھیے [[event/marwan-caucasus-expedition|مروان کی قفقاز مہم]]۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/kisal",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-13",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/marwan-caucasus-expedition",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/khazars",
  "person/asid-ibn-zafir-al-sulami",
  "person/hisham-ibn-abd-al-malik",
  "person/marwan-ibn-muhammad",
  "person/said-al-harashi",
  "place/al-sarir",
  "place/armenia",
  "place/bab-al-lan"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}