{
 "id": "place/maarrat-al-numan",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "maarrat-al-numan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "معرة النعمان",
  "en": "Ma'arrat al-Nu'man",
  "ur": "معرۃ النعمان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة في الشمال الشامي بين حلب وحماة، مسقط رأس أبي العلاء المعري ومسكنه.",
  "en": "Northern Syrian city between Aleppo and Hama, the birthplace and lifelong home of Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [
  "place/ma-arrat-nu-man"
 ],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  35.63,
  36.68
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   35.63,
   36.68
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "coordinate_note": "Modern Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria.",
  "sources": [
   "source/shadharat-dhahab",
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-a",
   "note": "Merged duplicate record place/ma-arrat-nu-man into this entity during consolidation."
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q728226"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abu-l-ala-al-maarri",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "The poet-philosopher of Ma'arra, 'prisoner of two gaols' — his house and his sight; he entered Baghdad twice and returned to Ma'arra.",
   "sources": [
    "source/shadharat-dhahab"
   ],
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/al-tanukhi-al-qadi-abu-al-qasim-ali-ibn-al-muhsin",
   "type": "visited_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Companion and pupil of Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri at Ma'arra.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/amin-ibn-muhammad-al-jundi",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Wikidata Q728226 (P19); corroboration recommended.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ibn-al-wardi",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/sack-of-maarrat-al-numan-491",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/al-mustazhir-billah",
  "place/aleppo",
  "place/baghdad",
  "place/damascus",
  "place/ottoman-empire",
  "place/syria",
  "event/sack-of-maarrat-al-numan-491",
  "person/abu-l-ala-al-maarri"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}