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 "id": "place/karbala",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "karbala",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كربلاء",
  "en": "Karbala"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة في العراق فيها مشهد الحسين، ذكرها ابن بطوطة في مسيره في العراق.",
  "en": "A city in Iraq containing the shrine of al-Husayn, mentioned by Ibn Battuta during his travels in Iraq."
 },
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  32.61603,
  44.02488
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   32.61603,
   44.02488
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q199909",
   "geonames": "94824"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer",
   "source/rihla-ibn-battuta-1958",
   "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code; coordinates from GeoNames (modern settlement of the same name); identification with the classical place to be checked"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كربلاء مدينة في العراق فيها مشهد الحسين، وقد ذكرها ابن بطوطة في مسيره في العراق. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nيحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: الإحداثيات مأخوذة من المستوطنة الحديثة التي تحمل الاسم نفسه، وتطابقها مع الموضع القديم لم يُتحقق منه. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/karbala",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Karbala is a city in Iraq where the shrine of al-Husayn is, and Ibn Battuta mentions it on his journey through Iraq. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nAn additional source is needed: the coordinates come from the modern settlement that bears the same name, and their match with the ancient site has not been verified. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/karbala",
    "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": "کربلاء عراق کا ایک شہر ہے جس میں حسین کا مشہد ہے، اور ابن بطوطہ نے عراق میں اپنے سفر کے دوران اس کا ذکر کیا ہے۔ {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nمزید ماخذ درکار ہے: محددات ایک جدید بستی سے لیے گئے ہیں جو اسی نام سے ہے، اور اس کی قدیم مقام سے مطابقت کی تصدیق نہیں ہوئی۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/karbala",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 22,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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   "to": "person/abd-allah-ibn-al-husayn",
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   "inverse": true
  },
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   "inverse": true,
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    "source/wikidata-ahmad-shah-qajar"
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   "to": "person/al-qasim-ibn-al-hasan",
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   "inverse": true
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  {
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   "inverse": true,
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    "source/wikidata-fateh-ali-khan-qizilbash"
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   "to": "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
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   "inverse": true
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   "inverse": true
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   "to": "person/mohammad-ali-shah-qajar",
   "type": "burial_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
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    "source/wikidata-mohammad-ali-shah-qajar"
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  {
   "to": "person/mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar",
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   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-mozaffar-ad-din-shah-qajar"
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   "to": "person/uthman-ibn-ali",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true
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  {
   "to": "event/karbala-wall-construction-400",
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   "inverse": true,
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  "person/mohammad-ali-shah-qajar",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
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  "person/abd-allah-ibn-al-husayn",
  "person/ahmad-shah-qajar",
  "person/ali-al-akbar-ibn-al-husayn"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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