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 "slug": "constantinople",
 "label": {
  "ar": "القسطنطينية",
  "en": "Constantinople"
 },
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  "en": "Byzantine capital on the Bosporus, taken by Mehmed II in 1453 and made the Ottoman seat, Istanbul.",
  "ar": "عاصمة بيزنطة على البوسفور، فتحها محمد الفاتح سنة 1453م وصارت دار السلطنة العثمانية إسطنبول."
 },
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 ],
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 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  41.008,
  28.978
 ],
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   28.978
  ],
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  "sources": [
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "GeoNames gazetteer coordinates for the Timeline Explorer Mehmed II story map",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "explorer-mehmed-ii"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium); coordinates from GeoNames"
  }
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 "prose": {},
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/conquest-constantinople-857",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
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  "person/ahmad-ibn-ismail-al-kurani",
  "person/aq-shams-al-din",
  "person/baltaoghlu",
  "person/candarli-halil-pasha",
  "person/constantine-xi-palaiologos",
  "person/gennadios-scolarios",
  "person/giustiniani",
  "person/mehmed-ii"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}