{
 "id": "place/al-rusafa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-rusafa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرصافة",
  "en": "al-Rusafa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جانب بغداد الشرقي؛ عند البلاذري بناها المنصور للمهدي وكان يدعى عسكر المهدي لأنه عسكر فيه حين خرج إلى الري فنزلها لما قدم سنة 151.",
  "en": "Baghdad's east side — built by al-Mansur for al-Mahdi, called Askar al-Mahdi from his camp there bound for Rayy, occupied on his 151 return."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 414–417",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-39"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407",
   "source/umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرصافة جانب بغداد الشرقي. يذكر البلاذري أن المنصور بناها للمهدي، وكانت تدعى عسكر المهدي لأنه عسكر فيها حين خرج إلى الري. ونزلها لما قدم سنة 151. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.414-417}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-rusafa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "al-Rusafa: the eastern side of Baghdad. al-Baladhuri reports that al-Mansur built it for al-Mahdi, and it was called the camp of al-Mahdi because he camped there when he set out for al-Rayy. He settled there when he came in the year 151 AH. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.414-417}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/al-rusafa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}