{
 "id": "place/malta",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "malta",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مالطة",
  "en": "Malta"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جزيرة كبيرة فيها مدينة، ويفتح خليجها إلى الشرق، ويصفها الإدريسي بكثرة الخيرات، وتبعد عن صقلية بمجرى. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 588}",
  "en": "A large island with a town, its bay opening to the east, described as abundant; a channel's distance from Sicily. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 588}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "andalus-europe"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "island",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 588 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q233"
  },
  "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": "مالطة جزيرة كبيرة فيها مدينة، ويفتح خليجها إلى الشرق. يصفها الإدريسي بكثرة الخيرات، وهي تبعد عن صقلية بمجرى. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.588}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malta",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Malta is a large island with a city, and its gulf opens to the east. Al-Idrisi describes it as abounding in good things. It lies a sea-crossing away from Sicily. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.588}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malta",
    "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": "مالطہ ایک بڑا جزیرہ ہے جس میں ایک شہر ہے، اور اس کا خلیج مشرق کی جانب کھلتا ہے۔ ادریسی اسے پیداوار کی کثرت والا بیان کرتے ہیں، اور یہ صقلیہ سے ایک بہاؤ کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.588}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/malta",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}