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  "ar": "الإمبراطورية البيزنطية",
  "en": "Byzantine Empire",
  "ur": "بازنطینی سلطنت"
 },
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  "ar": "إقليم في الإمبراطورية الرومانية.",
  "en": "Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans",
  "andalus-europe"
 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  41.0125,
  28.98
 ],
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   41.0125,
   28.98
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  "coordinate_note": "Representative point from the Wikidata item.",
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  "sources": [
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  ],
  "importance": 2,
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q12544 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; Wikidata item Q12544 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
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 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-10",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/jabala-ibn-al-ayham",
   "type": "visited_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Entered Byzantine territory (بلاد الروم) per al-Baladhuri, cited in the record's summary.",
   "sources": [
    "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/maria-al-qibtiyya",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/nilufer-hatun",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q12544)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/zaida-ibn-qudama",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
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    "source/fihrist-ibn-al-nadim"
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  }
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  "event/battle-of-al-jabiya",
  "event/battle-of-yarmuk",
  "event/death-of-ibrahim",
  "event/letters-to-rulers-and-kings",
  "group/ghassan",
  "person/ibrahim-ibn-muhammad",
  "person/muhammad"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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