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 "id": "place/bornu",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bornu",
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  "ar": "برنو",
  "ur": "برنو"
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  "en": "Historic kingdom of the central Sudan around Lake Chad.",
  "ar": "مملكة تاريخية في وسط السودان حول بحيرة تشاد."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
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 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  12,
  13
 ],
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   12,
   13
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "Approximate centre of the kingdom.",
  "external_ids": {
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  },
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Gazetteer identification from the entities citing this place (own research)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "person-place-geo-c"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/mustafa-ibn-umar-kyari",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-amja-1893",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-dimurwa-1894",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-lekarawa-1893",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/rabih-war",
   "type": "site_of",
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  "event/battle-of-amja-1893",
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  "event/battle-of-lekarawa-1893",
  "event/rabih-war",
  "person/mustafa-ibn-umar-kyari"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}