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 "id": "place/al-ghuta",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-ghuta",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الغوطة",
  "en": "al-Ghuta"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بقعة واسعة حول دمشق تُمتد نحو مرحلتين في عرض مرحلة، فيها قرى وضياع كثيرة، ويذكر الإدريسي أسماء قراها مثل داريا وبرزة وكوكبا، وفيها أنهار تشق البساتين والديارات. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 366} وعدّها المقدسي في مستفاض جنات الدنيا الأربع: غوطة دمشق ونهر الأبلة وروضة الصغد وشعب بوان {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p. 32}.",
  "en": "A broad belt around Damascus, about two stages long and one stage wide, with many villages and estates, among them Darayya, Barza and Kawkab; rivers cut through its orchards and monasteries. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 366}"
 },
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  "levant-iraq"
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 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 366 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002",
   "source/ahsan-al-taqasim"
  ],
  "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": "الغوطة بقعة واسعة حول [[place/damascus|دمشق]]، تمتد نحو مرحلتين في عرض مرحلة. فيها قرى وضياع كثيرة، ويذكر الإدريسي من أسمائها داريا وبرزة وكوكبا. وفيها أنهار تشق البساتين والديارات. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.366}\n\nوعدّ المقدسي غوطة دمشق من جنات الدنيا الأربع، مع نهر الأبلة وروضة الصغد وشعب بوان. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.32}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-ghuta",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "al-Ghuta: a wide area around [[place/damascus|Damascus]], extending about two stages in length and one stage in width. It has many villages and estates. Among its names al-Idrisi mentions Darya, Barza and Kawkab. It has rivers that cut through its orchards and monasteries. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.366}\n\nal-Maqdisi counted the Ghuta of Damascus among the four gardens of the world, together with the river al-Ublah, the meadow of al-Sughd and the ravine of Bawan. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.32}"
    }
   ],
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}