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  "ar": "فتحبور سيكري",
  "en": "Fatehpur Sikri",
  "ur": "فتح پور سیکری"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "عاصمة أنشأها أكبر قرب آكره احتفاءً بمولد ابنه سليم، بدأ العمل فيها سنة 1571م، وهجرها البلاط سنة 1585م {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}.",
  "en": "A capital founded by Akbar near Agra to celebrate the birth of his son Salim, begun in 1571 and left by the court in 1585 {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}."
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  "architecture"
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  "earliest": 1570.9993360575509,
  "latest": 1571.99867211507
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1571",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Brookes: craftsmen started work in 1571"
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   "edtf": "1571",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Brookes: craftsmen started work in 1571"
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  "coordinate_note": "Matched to Wikidata Q179046 by name; coordinates approximate until verified against a gazetteer.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Brookes 1987, printed pp. 133-135",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فتحبور سيكري مدينة أنشأها [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|أكبر]] على مسيرة ساعة من [[place/agra|آكره]]. ويروي [[person/john-brookes|بروكس]] أن أكبر زار الشيخ [[person/salim-chishti|سليم الجشتي]] المقيم في سيكري يلتمس دعاءه بالولد، فولد له سنة 1569م ابنه سليم، الذي صار الإمبراطور [[person/jahangir-mughal|جهانگير]]، فقرر نقل عاصمته إلى سيكري احتفاءً بمولده. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "العمارة",
     "markdown": "بدأ آلاف الحرفيين العمل سنة 1571م في مجمع القصور والبساتين، بطراز هندي خالص كما يقول بروكس. وفي فناء الجامع الكبير ذي الإيوان الأحمر المطعّم بالرخام يقوم [[building/tomb-of-salim-chishti|ضريح الشيخ سليم]] الرخامي، وقرب المسجد قصر أكبر الخاص من الحجر الأحمر، فيه قنوات ماء وحوض كبير في الفناء الرئيس تتوسطه جزيرة تصل إليها جسور. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.134} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "هجرها",
     "markdown": "لم يسكنها أكبر أكثر من أربع عشرة سنة؛ وتُذكر لهجرها أسباب منها سوء الموقع صحياً أو قلة الماء، ويقال إن سد البحيرة انهار والإمبراطور وأصحابه على ضفتها. ونقل أكبر بلاطه إلى البنجاب سنة 1585م. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
    }
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    "id": "place/fatehpur-sikri",
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     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 133-135"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Fatehpur Sikri is a city founded by [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|Akbar]] an hour's journey from [[place/agra|Agra]]. [[person/john-brookes|Brookes]] tells how Akbar visited Shaykh [[person/salim-chishti|Salim Chishti]] at Sikri for his prayers for an heir; his son Salim, later the emperor [[person/jahangir-mughal|Jahangir]], was born in 1569, and to celebrate the birth Akbar decided to move his capital to Sikri. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Architecture",
     "markdown": "Thousands of craftsmen began work in 1571 on the complex of palace and garden buildings, in what Brookes calls a wholly Indian style. In the courtyard of the great mosque, with its huge red sandstone iwan inlaid with marble, stands the marble [[building/tomb-of-salim-chishti|tomb of Shaykh Salim]]; near the mosque is Akbar's private palace of red sandstone, with water channels throughout and a great tank in the main court with a central island reached by bridges. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.134} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Abandonment",
     "markdown": "Akbar lived there no more than fourteen years. Reasons given for its desertion include an unhealthy site or an inadequate water supply, and it is said that the dam of the lake gave way while the emperor and his friends were on the bank. Akbar moved his court to the Punjab in 1585. {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
    }
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    "source_lang": "ar",
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     "source": "source/brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987, pp. 133-135"
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   "updated": "2026-11-04"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "فتح پور سیکری [[person/jalal-al-din-akbar|اکبر]] کا بسایا ہوا شہر ہے جو [[place/agra|آگرہ]] سے ایک گھنٹے کی مسافت پر ہے۔ [[person/john-brookes|بروکس]] بیان کرتے ہیں کہ اکبر سیکری میں مقیم شیخ [[person/salim-chishti|سلیم چشتی]] کے پاس اولاد کی دعا کے لیے گیا؛ 1569ء میں اس کا بیٹا سلیم، جو بعد میں بادشاہ [[person/jahangir-mughal|جہانگیر]] بنا، پیدا ہوا، اور اس خوشی میں اکبر نے اپنا دار الحکومت سیکری منتقل کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعمیرات",
     "markdown": "1571ء میں ہزاروں کاریگروں نے محل اور باغوں کے مجموعے پر کام شروع کیا، جسے بروکس خالص ہندوستانی طرز کہتے ہیں۔ جامع مسجد کے صحن میں، جس کا سرخ ریتلے پتھر کا عظیم ایوان مرمر سے مرصع ہے، شیخ سلیم کا مرمریں [[building/tomb-of-salim-chishti|مقبرہ]] ہے؛ مسجد کے قریب اکبر کا سرخ پتھر کا نجی محل ہے، جس میں ہر طرف پانی کی نالیاں اور مرکزی صحن میں ایک بڑا حوض ہے جس کے بیچ جزیرہ ہے اور اس تک پل جاتے ہیں۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.134} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ترک",
     "markdown": "اکبر یہاں چودہ برس سے زیادہ نہ رہا۔ اس کے ترک کی وجوہ میں جگہ کا غیر صحت مند ہونا یا پانی کی کمی بتائی جاتی ہیں، اور کہا جاتا ہے کہ جھیل کا بند اس وقت ٹوٹ گیا جب بادشاہ اور اس کے ساتھی کنارے پر تھے۔ اکبر نے 1585ء میں اپنا دربار پنجاب منتقل کیا۔ {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.133} {cite:brookes-gardens-of-paradise-1987 p.135}"
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