{
 "id": "place/manbasa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "manbasa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "منبسة",
  "en": "Manbasa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة صغيرة في بلاد الزنج على البحر، وأهلها يعملون في استخراج الحديد، وتبعد عن ملندة مسيرة يومين {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 59}.",
  "en": "A small town in the Zanj lands on the sea, whose people mine iron. Two days from Malanda {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 59}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 59 (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": "منبسة مدينة صغيرة في بلاد الزنج على البحر، وأهلها يعملون في استخراج الحديد. تبعد عن ملندة مسيرة يومين، بحسب الإدريسي. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/manbasa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Manbasa is a small city in the land of the Zanj, on the sea, and its people work in iron extraction. According to al-Idrisi it lies two days' journey from Malanda. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/manbasa",
    "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": "منبسہ زنج کی سرزمین میں سمندر کے کنارے ایک چھوٹا شہر ہے، جس کے باشندے لوہا نکالنے کا کام کرتے ہیں۔ ادریسی کے مطابق یہ ملندہ سے دو دن کے سفر کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.59}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/manbasa",
    "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"
 }
}