{
 "id": "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "qasr-shams-al-muluk",
 "label": {
  "ar": "قصر هرقل (شمس الملوك)",
  "en": "Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "القصر بالشرف الأعلى الشمالي بدمشق منسوباً إلى هرقل، وكان يُعرف في زمان ابن فضل الله العمري بقصر شمس الملوك؛ لم يبق منه إلا الجوسق والحمام، وصار الجوسق خانقاه للفقراء، وكان لا يزال منزلاً لملوك ومنتزهاً لأهل البلد لإشرافه على نهر بردى والوادي، وقد نزله السلطان صلاح الدين {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}.",
  "en": "The palace on Damascus's northern Height ascribed to Heraclius, known in al-Umari's day as Qasr Shams al-Muluk; only the jawsaq and bath survived — the jawsaq turned into a khanqah for the poor — yet it still lodged kings and pleasured the townsfolk above the Barada river, and Sultan Salah al-Din once stayed there {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "palace",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 250",
   "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": "قصر في الشرف الأعلى الشمالي بدمشق، يُنسب إلى هرقل. عرف في زمان ابن فضل الله العمري بقصر شمس الملوك. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حاله في زمن العمري",
     "markdown": "لم يبق منه إلا الجوسق والحمام. وصار الجوسق خانقاه للفقراء. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}\n\nكان لا يزال منزلاً للملوك ومنتزهاً لأهل البلد، لإشرافه على نهر بردى والوادي. وقد نزله السلطان صلاح الدين. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}\n\nالقصر في [[place/damascus|دمشق]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A palace in the upper northern district of [[place/damascus|Damascus]], attributed to Heraclius. In the time of Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari it was known as the Palace of the Sun of Kings. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its condition in al-Umari's time",
     "markdown": "Only the castle and the bath remained. The castle had become a hospice for the poor. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}\n\nIt was still a residence for kings and a pleasure ground for the people of the city, because it overlooks the river Barada and the valley. Sultan Salah al-Din stayed in it. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 250}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/damascus",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/umari-masalik-1924"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
  "building/umayyad-mosque",
  "event/al-adil-takes-damascus-592",
  "event/battle-of-marj-rahit",
  "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
  "event/conquest-damascus-atsiz-468",
  "event/conquest-of-damascus",
  "event/damascus-partition-590"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}