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 "slug": "mehter-band",
 "label": {
  "ar": "فرقة المهتر",
  "en": "The Mehter (Ottoman military band)"
 },
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  "ar": "فرقة الموسيقى العسكرية العثمانية الأقدم في تاريخ الجيوش المنظمة؛ ألهمت موتسارت وبيتهوفن وما زالت تُعزف في إسطنبول.",
  "en": "The Ottoman military band — the world's oldest organised military music, which inspired Mozart and Beethoven and still performs in Istanbul."
 },
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 "regions": [],
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  "music"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1299.0019644482775,
  "latest": 1300.0013005057967
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1299",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
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   "edtf": "1299",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1261629"
  },
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  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "المهتر فرقة الموسيقى العسكرية العثمانية التاريخية، أقدم فرقة عسكرية معروفة في العالم؛ كانت تعزف أمام الجيوش وتثير الحماس، ويُعاد إحياؤها اليوم في إسطنبول ضمن المراسم التراثية. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
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  "event/fez-sacred-music-festival",
  "event/sheb-i-arus",
  "event/urs-ajmer",
  "group/junoon-band",
  "group/native-deen",
  "group/raihan-band",
  "group/sabri-brothers",
  "person/abida-parvin"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}