{
 "id": "place/sfax",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "sfax",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صفاقس",
  "en": "Sfax"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة على ساحل تونس، ذكرها ابن بطوطة في طريقه إلى طرابلس.",
  "en": "A city on the Tunisian coast, which Ibn Battuta mentions on his way to Tripoli."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  34.74056,
  10.76028
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   34.74056,
   10.76028
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "external_ids": {
   "geonames": "280566"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer",
   "source/rihla-ibn-battuta-1958"
  ],
  "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": "صفاقس مدينة على ساحل تونس، ذكرها ابن بطوطة في طريقه إلى طرابلس. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nتطابق المدينة القديمة مع الموضع الحديث يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sfax",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sfax is a city on the coast of Tunisia, which Ibn Battuta mentioned on his way to Tripoli. {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nMatching the old city to the modern site needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sfax",
    "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": "صفاقس تونس کے ساحل پر ایک شہر ہے، جس کا ذکر ابنِ بطوطہ نے طرابلس کے سفر کے دوران کیا ہے۔ {cite:rihla-ibn-battuta-1958}\n\nقدیم شہر کی جدید مقام سے مطابقت کے لیے مزید مستند ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/sfax",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/ali-maaloul",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ali-maaloul-en",
    "source/wikipedia-ali-maaloul-ar"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/ali-maaloul"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}