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 "id": "event/battle-of-the-trench",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "battle-of-the-trench",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Battle of the Trench",
  "ar": "غزوة الخندق"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A siege of Medina by a coalition of Quraysh and allied tribes, which the defenders resisted behind a trench.",
  "ar": "حصار لقريش وقبائل متحالفة معها للمدينة، صمد المدافعون فيه خلف خندق."
 },
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 ],
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 ],
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 ],
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   "edtf": "0627-03",
   "hijri": "0005-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The month is approximate in the sources."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0627-03",
   "hijri": "0005-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The month is approximate in the sources."
  }
 },
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  "kind": "siege",
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    "edtf": "0627-03",
    "hijri": "0005-10",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The month is approximate in the sources."
   }
  },
  "sides": [
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     "ar": "المدافعون عن المدينة"
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   },
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     "ar": "قريش والقبائل المتحالفة معها"
    },
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     "group/quraysh"
    ],
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     "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb"
    ]
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   "source/watt-1956-medina",
   "source/lings-1983"
  ],
  "status": {
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   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; dates follow the cited tradition and are approximate where marked"
  }
 },
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   "to": "group/banu-qurayza",
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   "role": "accused-of-treating-with-the-besiegers",
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  "place/medina",
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  "group/early-muslims",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
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  "place/mecca"
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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