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 "id": "event/nur-al-din-karak-565",
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 "slug": "nur-al-din-karak-565",
 "label": {
  "ar": "حصر نور الدين الكرك",
  "en": "Nūr al-Dīn besieges al-Karak"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حصر نور الدين الكرك وهي من أمنع حصون الفرنج بالشام في بلاد مؤاب شرقي البحر الميت، وكانت قاعدتهم العظمى التي يتحصنون بها ويفزعون إليها {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 23}.",
  "en": "Nūr al-Dīn laid siege to al-Karak, among the strongest Frankish strongholds in the land of Moab east of the Dead Sea — their great base of refuge {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 23}."
 },
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   "edtf": "1169~",
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   "derived": true
  }
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 "data": {
  "kind": "siege",
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    "edtf": "1169~",
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   }
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  "sides": [
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "عسكر نور الدين",
     "en": "Nūr al-Dīn's army"
    },
    "commanders": [
     "person/nur-al-din-mahmud-ibn-zangi"
    ]
   },
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "الفرنج",
     "en": "the Franks"
    }
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ لابن الأثير، قراءة آبل فيجن",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kamil-v12-batch01"
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 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حصر نور الدين الكرك وهي قاعدة الفرنج العظمى ببلاد مؤاب شرقي البحر الميت، ومن أمنع حصونهم التي يفزعون إليها {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 23}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/nur-al-din-karak-565",
    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nur al-Din besieged al-Karak, the great capital of the Franks in the land of Moab east of the Dead Sea, and one of the most impregnable of the fortresses to which they would flee. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 23}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/nur-al-din-karak-565",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نور الدین نے الکرک کا محاصرہ کیا، جو بحیرۂ مردار کے مشرق میں مؤاب کی سرزمین پر فرنگیوں کا سب سے بڑا مرکز تھا اور ان کے سب سے محفوظ قلعوں میں سے تھا جہاں وہ پناہ لیا کرتے تھے۔ {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 23}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/nur-al-din-karak-565",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
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 "related": [
  "event/abbasid-khutba-egypt-567",
  "event/death-of-nur-al-din-569",
  "event/franks-siege-damietta-564",
  "event/nur-al-din-damascus-543",
  "event/nur-al-din-mosul-567",
  "event/nur-al-din-safed-552",
  "event/nur-al-din-safita-561",
  "event/nur-saladin-rift-568"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}