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Debre Damo (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on Debre Damo, read directly for this pass, covering the sixth-century founding attributed to Abuna Aregawi, one of the Nine Saints, the rope-climb access up the cliff, the exclusion of women and female animals, and the monastery's preserved Ge'ez manuscripts.

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3
Reliability tier 3: a community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, used here only for settled institutional facts (founding tradition, rope-climb access, the ban on women, the manuscript collection), corroborated across independent travel-writing accounts read alongside it.
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Cited for the founding tradition, the rope-climb access, the exclusion of women and female animals, and the preserved manuscript collection.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debre_Damo
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Debre Damo (Wikipedia)
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Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)

This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sacred Sites, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
  • Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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