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 "id": "place/yafa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "yafa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "يافا",
  "en": "Yafa (Jaffa)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة على ساحل البحر المالح، تبعد عن الرملة نحو عشرين ميلاً، وفيها مرسى للمراكب. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 356} وسمّاها المقدسي خزانة فلسطين وفرضة الرملة، صغيرة عليها حصن منيع بأبواب محدّدة وباب البحر كله حديد، والجامع مشرف على البحر وميناؤها جيّد {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p. 142}.",
  "en": "A town on the Mediterranean coast about twenty miles from Ramla, with a harbour. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 356}"
 },
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  "levant-iraq"
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 "data": {
  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 356 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002",
   "source/ahsan-al-taqasim"
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يافا مدينة على ساحل البحر المالح، تبعد عن [[place/ramla|الرملة]] نحو عشرين ميلاً، وفيها مرسى للمراكب، بحسب الإدريسي. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.356}\n\nوسمّاها المقدسي خزانة فلسطين وفرضة الرملة. يصفها بأنها صغيرة عليها حصن منيع، وبابها البحري كله حديد، وجامعها مشرف على البحر، وميناؤها جيد. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.142}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "place/yafa",
    "lang": "ar",
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   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Jaffa is a city on the shore of the salt sea, about twenty miles from [[place/ramla|Ramla]], and it has a harbour for ships, according to al-Idrisi. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.356}\n\nAl-Muqaddasi named it the treasury of Palestine and the port of Ramla. He describes it as small, with a strong fort, its whole sea gate of iron, its congregational mosque overlooking the sea, and its harbour good. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.142}"
    }
   ],
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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",
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 }
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