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 "id": "place/nayyir-desert",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "nayyir-desert",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صحراء نيسر",
  "en": "The Nayyir desert"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "صحراء قليلة الأنيس، يسلكها التجار إلى أودغست وغانة في زمن الخريف، ويقل فيها الماء وله مجابات معلومة، ومنها موضع لا ماء فيه نحو أربعة عشر يوما، وذكر المؤلف أن قوافل السير فيها تكون ليلا ثم تستريح وقت الظهيرة {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 107}، {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 108}.",
  "en": "A thinly inhabited desert that merchants cross on the way to Awdaghast and Ghana, mostly in the autumn season. Water is scarce and found at known stations; one stretch of about fourteen days has none. The author describes travel by night, with rest through the heat of midday {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 107}, {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 108}."
 },
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 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, pp. 107-116 (scan pages)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صحراء نيسر قليلة الأنيس، يسلكها التجار إلى أودغست وغانة في زمن الخريف، بحسب الإدريسي. الماء فيها قليل وله مجابات معلومة، وفيها موضع نحو أربعة عشر يوماً بلا ماء. وتسير القوافل فيها ليلاً ثم تستريح وقت الظهيرة. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.107} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.108}"
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Nayyir desert is sparsely inhabited. According to al-Idrisi, merchants cross it to Awdaghust and Ghana in the autumn. Water in it is scarce, and it has known water-points. There is a stretch of about fourteen days without water. Caravans travel through it by night and rest at midday. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.107} {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.108}"
    }
   ],
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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"
 }
}