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 "id": "place/meknes",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "meknes",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مكناسة",
  "en": "Meknes"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة حسنة مرتفعة على الأرض يجري في شرقها ماء، عامرة بالأسواق والحمامات والديار، وتتصل بها الجنات والزروع، سُميت باسم قبيلة مكناس. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 244}",
  "en": "A handsome city on high ground with water running to its east, with markets, baths and houses, and gardens and fields around it; named after the Miknasa tribe. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 244}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 244 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مكناسة مدينة حسنة مرتفعة على الأرض، يجري في شرقها ماء، عامرة بالأسواق والحمامات والديار، وتتصل بها الجنات والزروع. ويذكر الإدريسي أنها سُميت باسم قبيلة مكناس. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/meknes",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Meknes is a fine city raised on high ground, with water flowing to its east, full of markets, baths and houses, and joined by gardens and crops. Al-Idrisi mentions that it was named after the Meknassa tribe. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/meknes",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مکناسہ ایک خوبصورت شہر ہے جو بلندی پر واقع ہے۔ اس کے مشرق میں پانی بہتا ہے، اور یہ بازاروں، حماموں اور مکانات سے آباد ہے، جبکہ اس سے باغات اور کھیت متصل ہیں۔ ادریسی بتاتے ہیں کہ اس کا نام مکناس قبیلے کے نام پر رکھا گیا۔ {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.244}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/meknes",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-14",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/ma-al-aynayn",
   "type": "visited_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Met Sultan Abd al-Rahman at Meknes during his Hajj journey of 1858, the beginning of his Moroccan connections.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ma-al-aynayn-en"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/qadiriyya",
  "place/fez",
  "person/ma-al-aynayn"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}