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 "label": {
  "ar": "ماري جاطة",
  "en": "Mari Jata (Sundiata Keita)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مؤسس مملكة مالي وأعظم ملوك السودان الغربي. معنى اسمه عندهم «جاطة» الأسد و«ماري» الملك. تغلب على أهل صوصو وانتزع من أيديهم ملك أهل غانة القديم فملك من النيل إلى المحيط الأطلسي.",
  "en": "Founder of the Mali Empire and the greatest of the western Sudanese kings; in their tongue jata means lion and mari means king. He defeated the Susu and wrested from them the old kingdom of Ghana, ruling from the Niger to the Atlantic."
 },
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 "wings": [
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  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
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  "latest": 1256.0003969964844
 },
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   "edtf": "1255~",
   "hijri": "0653~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "لم يضبط ابن خلدون سنة وفاته؛ أنشأ الملك بعد انتزاعه من صوصو في ثلاثينيات القرن السابع؛ التحويل مشتق.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
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  ],
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   "sunni"
  ],
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1255~",
   "hijri": "0653~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "لم يضبط ابن خلدون سنة وفاته؛ أنشأ الملك بعد انتزاعه من صوصو في ثلاثينيات القرن السابع؛ التحويل مشتق.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
   ]
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — باب ملوك السودان، ص1656 (المجلد السادس، طبعة هيليوبوليس)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-ibar-maghreb-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); extracted from Ibn Khaldun al-Ibar via Apple Vision OCR"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ماري جاطة مؤسس [[polity/mali-empire|مملكة مالي]] وأعظم ملوك السودان الغربي عند ابن خلدون. معنى «جاطة» عندهم الأسد، و«ماري» الملك. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nتغلب على أهل صوصو وانتزع من أيديهم ملك أهل غانة القديم. فملك من النيل إلى المحيط الأطلسي. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}\n\nلم يضبط ابن خلدون سنة وفاته. والتاريخ التقريبي في البيانات مشتق، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي. وخلفه في الحكم لاحقاً [[person/mansa-musa|منسا موسى]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mari-jata",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Mari Jata, founder of the [[polity/mali-empire|Mali empire]] and, according to Ibn Khaldun, the greatest of the kings of the Western Sudan. In their language \"Jata\" means lion, and \"Mari\" means king. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His conquests",
     "markdown": "He overcame the people of Sosso and wrested from their hands the old kingdom of the people of Ghana. He ruled from the Nile to the Atlantic Ocean. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death and succession",
     "markdown": "Ibn Khaldun did not fix the year of his death. The approximate date in the data is derived and needs an additional source. He was later succeeded in rule by [[person/mansa-musa|Mansa Musa]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mari-jata",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [
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  "person/al-abraqawhi-ahmad",
  "person/al-astarabadhi-al-hasan",
  "person/al-baydawi-abd-allah-ibn-umar",
  "person/al-jabari-abu-ishaq-ibrahim-ibn-umar",
  "person/al-qurashi-jamal-al-din-muhammad-ibn-umar",
  "person/al-talafari-abu-al-makarim-muhammad-ibn-yusuf",
  "person/al-thaqafi-al-jayyani-muhammad-ibn-al-hasan",
  "person/ali-ibn-ahmad-al-asbahi",
  "person/ibn-abi-al-ahwas-al-husayn",
  "person/ibn-abi-al-isba-zaki-al-din",
  "person/ibn-al-abbar-muhammad"
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  {
   "to": "person/mansa-musa",
   "type": "predecessor_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   "to": "polity/mali-empire",
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   "to": "polity/mali-empire",
   "type": "ruler_of",
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 "related": [
  "person/mansa-sulayman",
  "person/mansa-musa",
  "polity/mali-empire",
  "event/mansa-musa-hajj-724",
  "polity/ghana-empire"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}