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 "id": "place/sokoto",
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 "slug": "sokoto",
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  "en": "Sokoto",
  "ar": "ولاية سقطو"
 },
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  "en": "A city in Nigeria, capital of Sokoto State.",
  "ar": "مدينة في نيجيريا."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
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  13.0622,
  5.2339
 ],
 "data": {
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   13.0622,
   5.2339
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  "coordinate_note": "Representative point from the Wikidata item.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q336350",
   "geonames": "2322911"
  },
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  ],
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   "source": "Wikidata item Q336350 (labels, coordinates, description)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "person-place-geo-c"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
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   "type": "ruled_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Sultan of Sokoto per the record text."
  },
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   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P20 place of death (Wikidata Q336350)"
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   "to": "person/nana-asmau",
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   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q336350)"
  },
  {
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   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P20 place of death (Wikidata Q336350)"
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-sokoto-1903",
   "type": "site_of",
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  }
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  "polity/sokoto-caliphate",
  "event/battle-of-sokoto-1903",
  "person/muhammadu-attahiru-i",
  "person/muhammadu-attahiru-ii",
  "event/battle-of-burmi-1903",
  "event/battle-of-kano-1903",
  "event/battle-of-kwatarkwashi-1903",
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 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}