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This specialization and expertise, however, come at the cost of bodies of knowledge becoming isolated from each other. Digital tools that facilitate linking resources from disparate languages, a process known as multi-lingual entity resolution, can break down linguistic barriers between scholastic islands and enhance fertile cross-cultural collaboration. However, many contemporary multi-lingual tools and underlying technological resources are developed or trained on web data, that is, modern text contributed by Web users over the past few decades. Unsurprisingly, therefore, these tools\u2019 efficacy has been limited when applied to text written in historical languages and dialects. To address these issues, in this paper, we present MEHDIE, the Middle East Heritage Data Integration Endeavor, a project dedicated to facilitating the semantic integration of knowledge sources related to the history of the Middle East using innovative data integration methods. The prototype multi-lingual entity resolution system we are currently developing utilizes spatial (geo-coordinates) and cross-lingual matching of textual information about a pair of place records to help identify their semantic relationship. This unique ability allows researchers to create bridges between collections of historical places from different languages, sources, and cultures. 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