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  "ar": "زنجبار",
  "en": "Zanzibar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جزيرة قبالة ساحل شرق أفريقيا، مركز تجاري إسلامي للثقافة السواحلية، وحكمتها سلطنة عُمان في القرن التاسع عشر.",
  "en": "An island off the East African coast, an Islamic trading centre of Swahili culture; the Sultanate of Oman ruled it in the nineteenth century."
 },
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  "east-africa"
 ],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  -6.1639,
  39.1979
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   -6.1639,
   39.1979
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "site",
  "external_ids": {
   "geonames": "148730"
  },
  "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"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "زنجبار جزيرة قبالة ساحل شرق أفريقيا، وهي مركز تجاري إسلامي للثقافة السواحلية. حكمتها سلطنة عُمان في القرن التاسع عشر. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nيحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي: الملخص العربي ينتظر مراجعته على مراجع متخصصة، والمصدر المذكور هو قاعدة أسماء الأماكن المعتمدة للإحداثيات."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/zanzibar",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Zanzibar is an island off the coast of East Africa, an Islamic commercial centre of the coastal (Swahili) culture. The Sultanate of Oman ruled it in the nineteenth century. {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nAn additional source is needed: the Arabic summary awaits review against specialist references, and the cited source is the standard place-names database used for coordinates."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/zanzibar",
    "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": "زنجبار مشرقی افریقہ کے ساحل کے سامنے ایک جزیرہ ہے، اور سواحلی ثقافت کا ایک اسلامی تجارتی مرکز ہے۔ انیسویں صدی میں اس پر عمان کی سلطنت نے حکومت کی۔ {cite:geonames-gazetteer}\n\nاس کے لیے مزید ماخذ درکار ہے: عربی خلاصے کو متعلقہ مراجع پر نظرِ ثانی کی ضرورت ہے، اور حوالہ کردہ ماخذ محلِ وقوع کے نقاط کے لیے جغرافیائی ناموں کا ڈیٹا ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/zanzibar",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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 "degree": 28,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-12",
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 }
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