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 "id": "place/bayt-lahm",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bayt-lahm",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بيت لحم",
  "en": "Bayt Lahm (Bethlehem)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "موضع فيه كنيسة متقنة البناء، ويذكر الإدريسي أنه المكان الذي ولد فيه المسيح، وفيه قبر راحيل على الطريق، وتبعد عن بيت المقدس نحو ستة أميال. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 362}",
  "en": "A place with a finely built church, which al-Idrisi says marks where Jesus was born; Rachel's tomb lies on the road, and it is about six miles from Jerusalem. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 362}"
 },
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 ],
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  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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  "kind": "town",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 362 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "موضع فيه كنيسة متقنة البناء، ويذكر الإدريسي أنه المكان الذي ولد فيه المسيح، وفيه قبر راحيل على الطريق، وتبعد عن بيت المقدس نحو ستة أميال. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.362}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "place/bayt-lahm",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Bethlehem: a place with a finely built church. al-Idrisi reports that it is the place where Christ was born, that the tomb of Rachel is on the road there, and that it lies about six miles from Jerusalem. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.362}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bayt-lahm",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "یہ ایک ایسی جگہ ہے جہاں نفیس طرز تعمیر کا گرجا ہے۔ ادریسی بیان کرتا ہے کہ یہ وہ مقام ہے جہاں مسیح کی ولادت ہوئی، اور راستے میں راحیل کی قبر بھی ہے۔ یہ بیت المقدس سے تقریباً چھ میل کے فاصلے پر ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.362}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/bayt-lahm",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}