Place Islam
Kairouan
القيروان ar قیروان fa
Tunisian town
- Dated from 670 CE
- Also called Kirwan, Al-Qayrawan, Kairwan
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
- Uqba ibn Nafi ↗Named as founder
Arab Muslim general (died 683)
Within the city
Inside Kairouan
Places whose own records locate them here.
Placed in its collection by the 4 places recorded in it or its districts: Computed
- Islam 3 of 4
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Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 670 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Kairouan, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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51 km awayGreat Mosque of Sousse
mosque in Tunisia -
67 km awayHanafi Mosque of Bourguiba
mosque in Tunisia -
67 km awayGreat Mosque of Monastir
mosque in Tunisia -
72 km awayLeptis Parva
city of Ancient Rome -
90 km awayGreat Mosque of Mahdia
mosque in Tunisia -
113 km awayGreat Mosque of Testour
mosque in Tunisia -
114 km awayTemple of Juno Caelestis
ancient Roman temple of Dougga -
121 km awayzaouia of Sidi Belhassen Karray
zawiya in Sfax, Tunisia
Connections
How Kairouan connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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