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 "id": "place/tlemcen",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "tlemcen",
 "label": {
  "en": "Tlemcen",
  "ar": "تلمسان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Algerian city, capital of the Zayyanid kingdom (1235-1554) and a centre of Maghrebi scholarship.",
  "ar": "مدينة جزائرية، عاصمة مملكة بني زيان (1235-1554م) ومركز للعلم في المغرب."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  34.8783,
  -1.315
 ],
 "data": {
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  "coordinates": [
   34.8783,
   -1.315
  ],
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   "pleiades": "285501"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
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   "completeness": 1,
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  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تلمسان مدينة جزائرية، كانت عاصمة مملكة بني زيان (1235-1554م) ومركزاً للعلم في المغرب. {cite:geonames-gazetteer} ويحتاج هذا الوصف إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/tlemcen",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Tlemcen is an Algerian city, which was the capital of the Banu Zayyan kingdom (1235–1554 CE) and a centre of learning in the Maghrib. {cite:geonames-gazetteer} This description needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/tlemcen",
    "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": "تلمسان الجزائر کا ایک شہر ہے، جو بنی زیان کی سلطنت کا دارالحکومت رہا (1235-1554ء) اور مغرب میں علم کا مرکز تھا۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer} اس بیان کے لیے مزید ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/tlemcen",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-11",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/abu-zayyan-ahmad",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-hasan-zayyani-tlemcen",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-mutadid-almohad",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/messali-hadj",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-messali-hadj-en",
    "source/wikipedia-messali-hadj-ar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/messali-hadj",
   "type": "burial_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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  {
   "to": "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963",
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   "to": "event/siege-of-tlemcen-699",
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  },
  {
   "to": "place/mansura-tlemcen",
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   ]
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  "person/al-hasan-zayyani-tlemcen",
  "person/abd-al-wahid-ibn-idris-almohad",
  "person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-marinid",
  "person/hasan-ibn-khayr-al-din",
  "person/mahmud-safa-bak",
  "person/muhammad-al-shaykh-al-sadi",
  "event/saadi-attack-tlemcen-963"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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