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  "ar": "تأسيس شاهجهان آباد",
  "en": "Founding of Shahjahanabad"
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  "ar": "أمر شاه جهان سنة 1638م ببناء عاصمة جديدة بدلهي سميت شاهجهان آباد، تحيط بها الأسوار وفي قلبها القلعة الحمراء {cite:asher-mughal-india-1992}.",
  "en": "In 1638 Shah Jahan ordered a new walled capital at Delhi, named Shahjahanabad, with the Red Fort at its heart {cite:asher-mughal-india-1992}.",
  "ur": "1638ء میں شاہ جہان نے دہلی میں شاہجہان آباد نامی نئی محصور راجدھانی بنانے کا حکم دیا جس کے مرکز میں لال قلعہ تھا {cite:asher-mughal-india-1992}."
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   "source": "written for the Timeline Explorer Mughal Delhi story from the cited source",
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  "event/jama-masjid-delhi-completed-1656",
  "event/red-fort-inaugurated-1648",
  "building/jama-masjid-delhi",
  "event/aurangzeb-coronation-delhi-1659",
  "event/humayun-returns-to-delhi-962",
  "event/ibn-battuta-envoy-to-china-1342",
  "event/nadir-shah-sack-of-delhi-1739",
  "event/siege-of-delhi-1857"
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