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 "id": "place/suways",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "suways",
 "label": {
  "ar": "السويس",
  "en": "Suways"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينتان كانتا على القلزم، وهما الآن أكثرهما خراب، ويذكر الإدريسي أن أهلهما كانوا يشربون من عين السويس، وهي عين زعاق لا يسيغها الشارب. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 348}",
  "en": "Two towns that stood at Qulzum, now mostly in ruins; al-Idrisi says their people drank from the Suways spring, a brackish spring hard to drink. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 348}"
 },
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 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 348 (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"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "السويس مدينتان كانتا على القلزم، وأكثرهما الآن خراب. يذكر الإدريسي أن أهلهما كانوا يشربون من عين السويس، وهي عين زعاق لا يسيغها الشارب. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.348}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/suways",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Suways are two cities which were on the Red Sea, most of them now in ruin. Al-Idrisi mentions that their people used to drink from the spring of Suways, a brackish spring which the drinker cannot swallow. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.348}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/suways",
    "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": "السویس بحرِ قلزم کے کنارے کے دو شہر تھے، اور ان میں سے زیادہ تر اب ویران ہو چکے ہیں۔ ادریسی بیان کرتے ہیں کہ ان کے باشندے السویس کے چشمے کا پانی پیتے تھے، جو کھارا ہے اور پینے والے کے حلق سے نہیں اترتا۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.348}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/suways",
    "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"
 }
}