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 "id": "place/al-mahdiyya",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "al-mahdiyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المهدية",
  "en": "al-Mahdiyya"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "المهدية قاعدة الفاطميين الأولى على ساحل إفريقية؛ وصفها المقدسي نحو 375هـ: مسورة بالحجر والجيل، شرب أهلها من الآبار وجباب ماء المطر، وهي خزانة القيروان ومطرح أصقلية ومصر عامرة آهلة — ومن أحب أن ينظر إلى القسطنطينية فلينظر إليها فإنها على عملها في جزيرة يُدخل إليها من طريق واحد مثل الشراك {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p. 181}.",
  "en": "Al-Mahdiyya, the first Fatimid seat on the Ifriqiyan coast; al-Muqaddasi c. 375 AH: walled in stone and gypsum, its folk drinking from wells and rain-cisterns, the granary of Qayrawan and berth of Sicily — whoever would see Constantinople should look on it, for it is built like it, on an island entered by a single causeway {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p. 181}."
 },
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 "regions": [
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 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المقدسي، أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم (de Goeje) ص 181",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-ahsan-2"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ahsan-al-taqasim"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "المهدية قاعدة الفاطميين الأولى على ساحل [[place/ifriqiya|إفريقية]]. وصفها المقدسي نحو سنة 375هـ بأنها مسورة بالحجر والجيل. وشرب أهلها من الآبار وجباب ماء المطر. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}\n\nيقول المقدسي إنها خزانة القيروان ومطرح صقلية، وإنها عامرة آهلة. ومن أحب أن ينظر إلى القسطنطينية فلينظر إليها، فهي في جزيرة يدخل إليها من طريق واحد مثل الشراك. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}"
    }
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    "id": "place/al-mahdiyya",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "al-Mahdiyya: the first capital of the Fatimids on the coast of [[place/ifriqiya|Ifriqiya]]. al-Maqdisi, around the year 375 AH, described it as walled with stone and mortar. Its people drank from wells and from cisterns of rainwater. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}\n\nal-Maqdisi says that it is the treasury of Qayrawan and the port of Sicily, and that it is populous and inhabited. Whoever wishes to see Constantinople should look at it, for it is on an island entered by one road as narrow as a sandal strap. {cite:ahsan-al-taqasim p.181}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "place/al-mahdiyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  {
   "to": "place/ifriqiya",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "على ساحل إفريقية",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
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 "related": [
  "event/abd-al-rahman-ibn-habib-rule",
  "event/first-raid-on-ifriqiya",
  "event/founding-of-qayrawan",
  "event/hassan-vs-kahina",
  "event/ibrahim-ibn-al-aghab-maghreb",
  "event/ismail-berber-dawah",
  "event/killing-of-kulthum-ibn-iyad",
  "event/killing-of-yazid-ibn-abi-muslim"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}