{
 "id": "place/muscat",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "muscat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مسقط",
  "en": "Muscat"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عاصمة سلطنة عُمان على خليج عُمان، ميناء تجاري قديم، وعُمان هي مركز المذهب الإباضي.",
  "en": "The capital of the Sultanate of Oman on the Gulf of Oman, an old trading port; Oman is the centre of the Ibadi school."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  23.5841,
  58.4078
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   23.5841,
   58.4078
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "site",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q3826",
   "geonames": "287286"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; coordinates from GeoNames; Arabic summary to be checked against reference works"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مسقط عاصمة سلطنة [[place/oman|عُمان]] على خليج عُمان، وهي ميناء تجاري قديم. وعُمان مركز المذهب الإباضي. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/muscat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Muscat is the capital of the Sultanate of [[place/oman|Oman]], on the Gulf of Oman, and an ancient commercial port. Oman is a centre of the Ibadi school. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/muscat",
    "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": "مسقط خلیجِ عمان پر [[place/oman|عمان]] کی سلطنت کا دارالحکومت ہے، اور یہ ایک قدیم تجارتی بندرگاہ ہے۔ عمان اباضی مسلک کا مرکز ہے۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/muscat",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 18,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/ali-bin-said",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-ali-bin-said",
    "source/wikipedia-ali-bin-said-ar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/azzan-bin-qais",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Birthplace Muscat is given by the Arabic article's infobox alone; no source gives any birth date, so the record carries the place without a born block.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-azzan-bin-qais-ar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/faisal-bin-turki-al-busaidi",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Died at Muscat on 4 October 1913 per the English article, the Arabic infobox template and Wikidata (the Arabic lead prose's 15 October reading is stated in his died note).",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-faisal-bin-turki-al-busaidi-en",
    "source/wikidata-faisal-bin-turki-al-busaidi"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/haitham-bin-tariq",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-haitham-bin-tariq-en",
    "source/wikidata-haitham-bin-tariq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/qaboos-bin-said",
   "type": "burial_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-qaboos-bin-said-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/said-bin-sultan",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-said-bin-sultan-en",
    "source/britannica-said-ibn-sultan"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/taimur-bin-feisal",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Born at Muscat in 1886 per the English and Arabic infoboxes and Wikidata.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-taimur-bin-feisal-en",
    "source/wikidata-taimur-bin-feisal"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/turki-bin-said",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "He was born at Muscat in 1832 (English article); Wikidata's birthplace item is the polity 'Muscat and Oman' (Q157734) where the article names the city itself.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-turki-bin-said-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/turki-bin-said",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "He died at Muscat on 4 June 1888 (English and Arabic articles; Wikidata place of death Muscat, Q3826).",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-turki-bin-said-en",
    "source/wikipedia-turki-bin-said-ar",
    "source/wikidata-turki-bin-said"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "group/al-bu-said",
  "person/faisal-bin-turki-al-busaidi",
  "person/turki-bin-said",
  "place/zanzibar",
  "person/haitham-bin-tariq",
  "person/qaboos-bin-said",
  "person/said-bin-sultan",
  "person/taimur-bin-feisal"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}