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 "slug": "seferbiy-zaneqo",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صفر بي زانوقه",
  "en": "Seferbiy Zaneqo",
  "ur": "صفر بی زانوقہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أمير ودبلوماسي وزعيم مقاومة شركسي من قبيلة الناتوخاي. أُرسل رهينة إلى روسيا سنة 1807 فتعلّم في ليسيه ريشيليو في أوديسا، ثم خدم الدولة العثمانية وقاد الوفد الشركسي إلى القسطنطينية سنة 1831، وعُيّن واليا عثمانيا على شركسيا في حرب القرم، وترأس الاتحاد الشركسي في 1859–1860؛ وهو مصمم العلم الوطني الشركسي.",
  "en": "Circassian (Adyghe) prince, diplomat and resistance leader from the Natukhay. Sent to Russia as a hostage in 1807 and educated at the Richelieu Lyceum in Odessa, he later served the Ottoman Empire, led the 1831 Circassian delegation to Constantinople, was appointed Ottoman governor of Circassia during the Crimean War, and headed the Circassian Confederation in 1859–1860; he designed the Circassian national flag.",
  "ur": "سرکسی (ادیگے) شہزادہ، سفارت کار اور مزاحمتی رہنما۔ 1807 میں روس کو یرغمال بنا کر بھیجے گئے اور اوڈیسا کے ریشیلیو لائسیم میں تعلیم پائی؛ بعد میں سلطنتِ عثمانیہ کی خدمت کی، 1831 میں سرکسی وفد کی قیادت قسطنطنیہ کی، جنگِ کریمیا میں سرکسیا کے عثمانی والی مقرر ہوئے اور 1859–1860 میں سرکسی کنفیڈریشن کے سربراہ رہے؛ سرکسی قومی پرچم انہی کا طراحی کردہ ہے۔"
 },
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 ],
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  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
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 "tags": [
  "circassia",
  "north-caucasus",
  "russo-circassian-war"
 ],
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 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1798.001943913975,
  "latest": 1860.0018480871981
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1798",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born in 1798 near Anapa, son of Mehmed Giray Bey, a wealthy merchant of the Zan family (English, Russian, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the year). The queue's 1789 is attested in no source read. No Hijri pairing is given in any source, so none is recorded.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-seferbiy-zaneqo-ru",
    "source/wikipedia-seferbiy-zaneqo-tr",
    "source/wikidata-seferbiy-zaneqo"
   ]
  },
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   "edtf": "1860-01-01",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died in Shapsughia on 1 January 1860 and was buried in the Vordobgach valley (English article; the Russian article gives the same day, the Turkish article January 1860). No place entity exists for Shapsughia or Anapa, so no born_in or died_in relation is written.",
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   {
    "value": "Seferbiy Zaneqo",
    "kind": "latinized"
   },
   {
    "value": "Занэкъо Сэфэрбий",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Сефер-бей Зан",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "صفر بي زانوقه",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Sefer Bey Zan",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1798",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born in 1798 near Anapa, son of Mehmed Giray Bey, a wealthy merchant of the Zan family (English, Russian, Turkish and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree on the year). The queue's 1789 is attested in no source read. No Hijri pairing is given in any source, so none is recorded.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-seferbiy-zaneqo-tr",
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   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1860-01-01",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died in Shapsughia on 1 January 1860 and was buried in the Vordobgach valley (English article; the Russian article gives the same day, the Turkish article January 1860). No place entity exists for Shapsughia or Anapa, so no born_in or died_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "diplomat",
   "military"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source read names a school, order or affiliation for him personally. The English and Turkish articles describe the Khalidiyya Sufi movement's influence on the wider Circassian resistance and the activity of Shamil's envoys as context, not as his affiliation, and the Turkish article quotes his 1857 political declaration in general Islamic idiom without naming any affiliation; Wikidata carries no religion value for him.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/wikipedia-seferbiy-zaneqo-tr",
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    ]
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q45768556"
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  "status": {
   "review": "published"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Russian, Turkish and Arabic Wikipedia articles on Seferbiy Zaneqo (the Arabic a translation of the English, one source family) and his Wikidata item Q45768556, all read in full on 27 October 2026; no text names a school or order for him personally, so his faith is unknown. His rivalry with Shamil's naib Muhammad Amin is recorded in the prose only, as no person record exists for the naib, and no born_in or died_in relation is written, as no place entity exists for Anapa or Shapsughia.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-108"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [
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  "person/al-bajuri-ibrahim-ibn-muhammad",
  "person/azurda",
  "person/bahadur-shah-zafar",
  "person/dost-mohammad-khan",
  "person/fazl-e-haq-khairabadi",
  "person/imam-shamil",
  "person/mirza-ghalib",
  "person/muhammad-ibn-ahmad-aknasus",
  "person/mulla-mushk-i-alam",
  "person/nana-asmau",
  "person/omar-ibn-said"
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 "connections": [],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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