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 "id": "place/sayda",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "sayda",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صيداء",
  "en": "Sayda (Sidon)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة على ساحل البحر الملح، تنسب إلى امرأة كانت في الجاهلية، رخيصة الأسعار، محدقة بالبساتين والأشجار، ويُصنع فيها السميكات التي يُستفاد منها في الاستمتاع. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 371}",
  "en": "A city on the salt sea named after a woman of pre-Islamic times, cheap, ringed by orchards and trees, where a fish is cured for use. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 371}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  33.5606,
  35.3758
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   33.5606,
   35.3758
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 371 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صيداء مدينة على ساحل البحر الملح، رخيصة الأسعار، محدقة بالبساتين والأشجار، بحسب الإدريسي. وهي تنسب إلى امرأة كانت في الجاهلية. ويصنع فيها نوع من السمك المملح. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.371}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sayda",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sayda is a city on the shore of the salt sea, cheap in price and surrounded by gardens and trees, according to al-Idrisi. It is attributed to a woman who lived in the pre-Islamic era. A kind of salted fish is made there. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.371}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sayda",
    "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": "صیدا کھارے سمندر کے ساحل پر ایک شہر ہے جہاں قیمتیں کم ہیں اور باغات اور درخت اسے گھیرے ہوئے ہیں، ادریسی کے مطابق۔ یہ نام ایک ایسی عورت کی طرف منسوب ہے جو زمانۂ جاہلیت میں تھی۔ یہاں نمک لگی مچھلی کی ایک قسم تیار کی جاتی ہے۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.371}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sayda",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-17",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/franks-beirut-sidon-504",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/franks-sidon-625",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/tur-castle-615",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "group/ifranja",
  "place/bayrut",
  "event/franks-beirut-sidon-504",
  "event/franks-sidon-625",
  "event/tur-castle-615"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}