Entertainment Building List
A viewset for viewing and editing Entertainment Buildings.
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YGsuf b.al-Warraq (d.973/4), described Tahart in the second half of the tenth century as possessing several busy markets, a great number of baths and surrounded by a wall pierced with several gates.\"§REF§Savage, E., 1990, Early medieval Ifriqiya, a reassessment of the Ibadiyya, pg.313§REF§§REF§Al-BakrI, Description de l'Afrioue septentrionale. trans. de Slane (Algiers, 1911):137-41.§REF§" }, { "id": 58, "polity": { "id": 271, "name": "ua_skythian_k_3", "long_name": "Third Scythian Kingdom", "start_year": -429, "end_year": -225 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "present", "comment": null, "description": "Possibly a theatre in the Greek city of Olbia? which was run directly by Scythian administrators.§REF§(Burstein 2010, 142) Stanley H Burstein. The Greek Cities of the Black Sea. Konrad H Kinzi. 2010. A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Wiley-Blackwell.§REF§" }, { "id": 59, "polity": { "id": 271, "name": "ua_skythian_k_3", "long_name": "Third Scythian Kingdom", "start_year": -429, "end_year": -225 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": true, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "absent", "comment": null, "description": "Possibly a theatre in the Greek city of Olbia? which was run directly by Scythian administrators.§REF§(Burstein 2010, 142) Stanley H Burstein. The Greek Cities of the Black Sea. Konrad H Kinzi. 2010. A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Wiley-Blackwell.§REF§" }, { "id": 60, "polity": { "id": 369, "name": "ir_jayarid_khanate", "long_name": "Jayarid Khanate", "start_year": 1336, "end_year": 1393 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "present", "comment": "\"With their liking for ostentation at court, it was also natural that several of the Jalayirids should distinguish themselves as builders, but many of the architectural achievements for which they were renowned have been destroyed. One of the buildings of Khwaja Mirjan, who was the Jalayirid governor of Baghdad on more than one occasion, has survived, however. It is the Islamic university (madrasd) in Baghdad, which was later named Jami'-i Mirjan. The Spanish ambassador Clavijo, usually a reliable observer, records having seen a palace of gigantic proportions in 804/1401 in Tabriz which was called Daulat- khana and had been erected by Uvais. His observations could well be based on fact. Lastly, Sultan Ahmad's repeated efforts to improve or restore the architecture of Baghdad are emphasised in many sources.\"", "description": "" }, { "id": 61, "polity": { "id": 516, "name": "eg_old_k_1", "long_name": "Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom", "start_year": -2650, "end_year": -2350 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "absent", "comment": "I have not found any evidence of dedicated public entertainment buildings (theatres, sports arenas, racetracks etc.) in this period. \"Most scholars now agree that pure theater - a scripted performance played in front of an audience for the purpose of entertainment - never took place in ancient Egypt ... a play requires a site for staging. Yet no such building or area has been identified from ancient Egypt that could be interpreted as a location where a play could have been staged\". <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/58XWUPN9\">[Leprohon_Csapo_Miller 2008, p. 259]</a> As for sports facilities, from Late Predynastic times onwards, the Sed (jubilee) festival involved the king performing a run; a track built for this purpose survives from Djoser’s pyramid precinct. However, this race was a ritual demonstration of the king's athleticism and fitness to rule, and the track could not be described as an \"entertainment\" structure in a simple sense. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/LDC8YHGA\">[Decker_Scanlon_Futrell 2021, p. 33]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 62, "polity": { "id": 586, "name": "gb_england_norman", "long_name": "Norman England", "start_year": 1066, "end_year": 1153 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "absent", "comment": "Public entertainment in this period was informal and typically occurred in open spaces, religious settings (e.g., feast days), or as part of traveling shows (e.g., troubadours or minstrels). <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/JISXN2HM\">[Carpenter 2003]</a>, <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/JLVS5BKW\">[Chibnall 1996]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 63, "polity": { "id": 798, "name": "de_east_francia", "long_name": "East Francia", "start_year": 842, "end_year": 919 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "absent", "comment": "Entertainment took the form of localized, religious, or feudal activities without dedicated venues. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MPWQTI9N\">[Wickham 2010]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 64, "polity": { "id": 177, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_4", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire IV", "start_year": 1839, "end_year": 1922 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "present", "comment": "Coffeehouses:\r\n Centers for storytelling, music, and shadow puppet shows (Karagöz). <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/YU4JWA9B\">[İnalcık 2002]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 65, "polity": { "id": 21, "name": "us_hawaii_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1820, "end_year": 1898 }, "year_from": 1847, "year_to": 1898, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "present", "comment": "The first dedicated theatre, the Thespian, an adobe building at King and Maunakea Streets, opened in September 1847. The Royal Hawaiian followed the next year at Hotel and Alakea Streets, and the Varieties in 1853. Nearly thirty years later, sugar and banking millionaire William G. Irwin's Music Hall, across from 'Iolani Palace, became the place to go until destroyed by fire. Rebuilt as the Opera House (at left) by Irwin and partners John and Adolph Spreckels, and designed by C. B. Ripley & C. W. Dickey, it presented the first moving pictures publicly shown in Hawai'i in 1897 <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4ZQERRK5\">[webpage_Theatres of Hawai'i]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 66, "polity": { "id": 21, "name": "us_hawaii_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1820, "end_year": 1898 }, "year_from": 1820, "year_to": 1846, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "absent", "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 67, "polity": { "id": 424, "name": "cn_wei_dyn_warring_states", "long_name": "Early Wei Dynasty", "start_year": -445, "end_year": -225 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 68, "polity": { "id": 514, "name": "eg_dynasty_1", "long_name": "Egypt - Dynasty I", "start_year": -3100, "end_year": -2900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 69, "polity": { "id": 515, "name": "eg_dynasty_2", "long_name": "Egypt - Dynasty II", "start_year": -2900, "end_year": -2687 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 70, "polity": { "id": 205, "name": "eg_inter_occupation", "long_name": "Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period", "start_year": -404, "end_year": -342 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 71, "polity": { "id": 521, "name": "eg_kushite", "long_name": "Egypt - Kushite Period", "start_year": -747, "end_year": -656 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown. Gymnastics and athletic games existed in Ramesside Egypt.", "description": null }, { "id": 72, "polity": { "id": 37, "name": "kh_funan_1", "long_name": "Funan I", "start_year": 225, "end_year": 540 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown: There were entertainers that were given to temples, <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8D9WC2Z7\">[O'Reilly 2007, p. 96]</a> but whether this entertainers performed for the public in a building designed for them has not been determined, there is no mention to this type of building in the reviewed literature. (RA)", "description": null }, { "id": 73, "polity": { "id": 95, "name": "in_hoysala_k", "long_name": "Hoysala Kingdom", "start_year": 1108, "end_year": 1346 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown. under the Chalukyas \"A natakasala (theatre) was constructed in the precincts of a Jain temple in Mugad about AD 1045\". <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MQ45IX7F\">[Sastri_Yazdan 1960, p. 423]</a> Did the Hoysalas have any natakasalas or still have and use those previously built?", "description": null }, { "id": 74, "polity": { "id": 245, "name": "cn_jin_spring_and_autumn", "long_name": "Jin", "start_year": -780, "end_year": -404 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 75, "polity": { "id": 96, "name": "in_kampili_k", "long_name": "Kampili Kingdom", "start_year": 1280, "end_year": 1327 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "under the Chalukyas \"A natakasala (theatre) was constructed in the precincts of a Jain temple in Mugad about AD 1045\". <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MQ45IX7F\">[Sastri_Yazdan 1960, p. 423]</a> Did the Hoysalas and Kampili residents have any natakasalas or still have and use those previously built?", "description": null }, { "id": 76, "polity": { "id": 49, "name": "id_kediri_k", "long_name": "Kediri Kingdom", "start_year": 1049, "end_year": 1222 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 77, "polity": { "id": 368, "name": "ye_rasulid_dyn", "long_name": "Rasulid Dynasty", "start_year": 1229, "end_year": 1453 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Perhaps for tournaments. \"And the people of the palace flocked in crowds; nay the common run of the people came together for this event in an immense assemblage. And they invited about eighty ladies, all modest, virtuous women, and they also invited the wives of the Emirs, of the military commanders, of the judges, or the farmers-general of revenue, and of the notables of the city, and there was not a single woman of the whole who stayed away.\" Al-Khazraji, History of the Rasulid Dynasty. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/7J7J2JVV\">[Meneley 2016, p. 99]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 78, "polity": { "id": 242, "name": "ml_songhai_2", "long_name": "Songhai Empire - Askiya Dynasty", "start_year": 1493, "end_year": 1591 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown<br>Daud was a patron of the arts, gave welfare to poor <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/587CAWSP\">[Cissoko_Niane 1984, p. 195]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 79, "polity": { "id": 477, "name": "iq_ur_dyn_3", "long_name": "Ur - Dynasty III", "start_year": -2112, "end_year": -2004 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 80, "polity": { "id": 97, "name": "in_vijayanagara_emp", "long_name": "Vijayanagara Empire", "start_year": 1336, "end_year": 1646 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown. Chalukyas had theatre. Anything like it in this period?", "description": null }, { "id": 81, "polity": { "id": 150, "name": "jp_sengoku_jidai", "long_name": "Warring States Japan", "start_year": 1467, "end_year": 1568 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 82, "polity": { "id": 517, "name": "eg_old_k_2", "long_name": "Egypt - Late Old Kingdom", "start_year": -2350, "end_year": -2150 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 83, "polity": { "id": 172, "name": "ir_il_khanate", "long_name": "Ilkhanate", "start_year": 1256, "end_year": 1339 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown<br>\"For all these dynasties—whose administrative infrastructures tended in any case to be derived from, or at least strongly influenced by, those of the ʿAbbasid Caliphate\" the ṣāḥeb al-ǰayš or ʿāreż, among other duties, \"organized weapon-training and equestrian games and exercises like polo, lance-thrusting at targets, etc.\". <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/RITAU64B\">[Bosworth 2001]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 84, "polity": { "id": 145, "name": "jp_kofun", "long_name": "Kansai - Kofun Period", "start_year": 250, "end_year": 537 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 85, "polity": { "id": 48, "name": "id_medang_k", "long_name": "Medang Kingdom", "start_year": 732, "end_year": 1019 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 86, "polity": { "id": 98, "name": "in_mughal_emp", "long_name": "Mughal Empire", "start_year": 1526, "end_year": 1858 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 87, "polity": { "id": 432, "name": "ma_saadi_sultanate", "long_name": "Saadi Sultanate", "start_year": 1554, "end_year": 1659 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 88, "polity": { "id": 260, "name": "cn_sui_dyn", "long_name": "Sui Dynasty", "start_year": 581, "end_year": 618 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Entertainment_building", "entertainment_building": "uncoded", "comment": null, "description": "Unless an \"open space\" is maintained for this function it is not an entertainment building.<br>Public events in Luoyang \"untilized the city grid and its broad avenues.\"§REF§(Xiong 2006, 85)§REF§<br>Yuanxiao Festival was \"a large-scale extravaganza ... [first] organized to entertain various barbarian tribal leaders on the street outside the Duan Gate ... acrobatic shows ... large orchestra of string and pipe instruments, composed of eighteen thousand people .... lanterns and candles lit up the sky above and the ground below ...\" §REF§(Xiong 2006, 85)§REF§<br>Luoyang street space \"could and did, with imperial blessings, function effectively as public open space for the benefit of its residents.\"§REF§(Xiong 2006, 85)§REF§" } ] }