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Affiénou

village in Comoé, Ivory Coast

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ2826087 ↗
Source-derived summary

Afiénou is a village in south-eastern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Kouakro, Aboisso Department, Sud-Comoé Region, Comoé District.

Afiénou was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1,126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Affiénou” as village in Comoé, Ivory Coast. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Affiénou, village and Comoé.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Affiénou, village and Comoé providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Affiénou”, the useful work is to connect “village in Comoé, Ivory Coast” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2826087. Authority coordinates are 5.417, -2.933. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Affiénou”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Affiénou primary sources, Affiénou archive and Affiénou research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Affiénou”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Affiénou” 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.