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 "id": "place/east-africa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "east-africa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "شرق أفريقيا",
  "en": "East Africa"
 },
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  "ar": "شرق القارة الأفريقية وسواحلها على المحيط الهندي، موطن الحضارة السواحلية الإسلامية.",
  "en": "The eastern side of Africa and its Indian-Ocean coast, home of Swahili Islamic civilisation."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "east-africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  -1,
  37
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "coordinates": [
   -1,
   37
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "Approximate regional centre; flagged for gazetteer verification.",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-a",
   "note": "Region entity created so persons whose records substantiate only a broad region still resolve on the map; centre point approximate."
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 14,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abdurrahman-aamir-dhuubow",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/abu-bakr-ibn-muhammad-adal",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ahmad-ibn-ibrahim-al-ghazi",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ahmed-yusuf-geledi",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/alimirah-hanfare",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/amara-dunqas",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-islam-hasan-ibrahim"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/atupele-muluzi",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Only the record-level region (east-africa) is attested; broad-region edge flagged for review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-atupele-muluzi-en",
    "source/wikidata-atupele-muluzi"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/bakili-muluzi",
  "person/abdurrahman-aamir-dhuubow",
  "person/abu-bakr-ibn-muhammad-adal",
  "person/ahmad-ibn-ibrahim-al-ghazi",
  "person/ahmed-yusuf-geledi",
  "person/alimirah-hanfare",
  "person/amara-dunqas",
  "person/atupele-muluzi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}