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 "id": "building/dayr-marsarjis",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "dayr-marsarjis",
 "label": {
  "ar": "دير مرسرجس",
  "en": "Dayr Marsarjis"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "دير فوق بلد بثلاثة فراسخ على قلة جبل عالٍ يُبين للناظر من عدة فراسخ؛ على بابه شجرة لا يعرف أحد ما هي لا يسقط ورقها ولها ثمرة يشبه اللوز — ولعلها التي ذكر ابن وحشية أنها في الدنيا واحدة لا ثاني لها — وفي جبله زرازير لا تفارقه ولا تُصاد وفي شعابه أفاعٌ كثيرة تمنع من صيدها ليلاً {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}.",
  "en": "The monastery three farsakhs above Balad on a high summit visible for leagues; at its gate grew an unnamed tree whose leaves never fell and whose fruit resembled the almond — perhaps the unique tree of the world that Ibn Wahshiyya recorded — while starlings held its mountain untrapped, guarded by night-snakes {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 304",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "دير مرسرجس دير فوق بلد بثلاثة فراسخ، على قمة جبل عالٍ يراه الناظر من عدة فراسخ. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصف العمري",
     "markdown": "على بابه شجرة لا يعرف أحد نوعها، لا يسقط ورقها، ولها ثمرة تشبه اللوز. ويرجح العمري أنها التي ذكر ابن وحشية أنها في الدنيا واحدة لا ثاني لها. وفي جبله زرازير لا تفارقه ولا تُصاد، وفي شعابه أفاعٍ كثيرة تمنع من صيدها ليلاً. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/dayr-marsarjis",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Monastery of Marsarjis stands above a town three farsakhs away, on the top of a high mountain that can be seen from several farsakhs off. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Umari's description",
     "markdown": "At its gate is a tree whose kind no one knows. Its leaves never fall, and it bears a fruit like an almond. Al-Umari suggests that it is the tree that Ibn Wahshiyya said is the only one of its kind in the world. On its mountain are starlings that never leave it and are never hunted, and in its ravines are many snakes, which keep people from hunting them at night. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 304}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/dayr-marsarjis",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}