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 "id": "place/bengal",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "bengal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنغال",
  "en": "Bengal",
  "ur": "بنگال"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إقليم تاريخي في شرق شبه القارة الهندية، مقسوم اليوم بين بنغلاديش والبنغال الغربية بالهند.",
  "en": "Historical region of the eastern Indian subcontinent, today split between Bangladesh and West Bengal."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  23.9888,
  88.7311
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "coordinates": [
   23.9888,
   88.7311
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "coordinate_note": "Wikidata Q80338 coordinates; representative point for the region.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q80338"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-a",
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q80338 (labels, coordinates), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; Wikidata item Q80338 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 34,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abdul-latif-chowdhury-fultali",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (البنغالي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alauddin-firuz-shah-i",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: ruled Bengal",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alauddin-firuz-shah-ii",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: sultan of Bengal",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alauddin-husain-shah-bengal",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: sultan of Bengal",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alivardi-khan",
   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: nawab of Bengal",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996",
    "source/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/bayazid-khan-karrani",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with بنغال per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/daud-khan-karrani",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with بنغال per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/faizunnesa-choudhurani",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with بنغال per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-faizunnesa-choudhurani-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ghiyasuddin-mahmud-shah",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with بنغال per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/momena-khatun",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Princess of the Bengal Sultanate per the record text."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/nasiruddin-bughra-khan",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/nasiruddin-nasrat-shah",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/bosworth-new-islamic-dynasties-1996"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/prince-daniyal-of-bengal",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/welch-india-art-and-culture-1985"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/shams-al-din-dawud-shah-ii",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/shams-al-din-ilyas-shah",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P20 place of death (Wikidata Q80338)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sikandar-shah-bengal",
   "type": "under_rule_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Wikidata P39 office held (bengal)"
  },
  {
   "to": "event/mughal-portuguese-conflicts",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/alauddin-husain-shah-bengal",
  "person/prince-daniyal-of-bengal",
  "object/dedicatory-inscription-of-prince-daniyal-gaur",
  "place/gujarat",
  "place/sijistan",
  "event/mughal-portuguese-conflicts",
  "person/abdul-latif-chowdhury-fultali",
  "person/alauddin-firuz-shah-i"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}