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Affeln

human settlement in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ382268 ↗
Source-derived summary

Affeln is a German village in Neuenrade, a municipality in Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia. Before 1975 it was considered an autonomous municipality.

Geography

It is located in Homert Natural Park in the east of Neuenrade and in north of Plettenberg.

Editorial summary

“Affeln” enters the record as human settlement in Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Affeln, human and settlement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Affeln, human and settlement.
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Why this record matters

“Affeln” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Affeln, human and settlement provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q382268. VIAF identifies the subject as 244694926. Authority coordinates are 51.274, 7.857. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Affeln” 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.