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Souk Erbaa El Saghir

souq in Sfax, Tunisia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2020
Entity authorityQ50434155 ↗
Source-derived summary

Souk Erbaa El Saghir (Arabic:سوق الربع الصغير) or the small Souk Erbaa is one of the souks of the medina of Sfax.

Localization

Souk Erbaa El Saghir represents and extension for Souk El Hannatine.

According to Boubaker Abdelkafi, originally this souk was basically a group of stables that by the time, got converted into workshops for making chain for weavers.

Editorial summary

“Souk Erbaa El Saghir” enters the record as souq in Sfax, Tunisia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Souk, Erbaa and Saghir can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Souk, Erbaa and Saghir.
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“Souk Erbaa El Saghir” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Souk, Erbaa and Saghir provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q50434155. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Souk Erbaa El Saghir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.