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Ahmedpur, Latur

town in Maharashtra, India

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 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ590521 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ahmedpur is a city in Latur district of Maharashtra state of India. Ahmedpur is 66 kms away from district headquarter Latur. It is the third largest city in Latur district.

Demography

Ahmadpur's population of 23,936 of which 12,796 are males while 11,140 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

Female Sex Ratio is of 927 against Maharashtra state average of 929. Literacy rate of Ahmadpur city is 82.67% higher than state average of 82.34%. In Ahmadpur, Male literacy is around 88.33% while female literacy rate is 76.61%.

Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 14.84% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 1.27% of total population in Ahmedpur.

Transport

Ahmedpur lies on NH 361 Nagpur Tuljapur road.

Recently, a bypass road was constructed in Ahmedpur on NH 361.

Editorial summary

“Ahmedpur, Latur” enters the record as town in Maharashtra, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ahmedpur, Latur and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ahmedpur, Latur and town.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q590521. Authority coordinates are 18.700, 76.934. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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 “Ahmedpur, Latur”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ahmedpur, Latur primary sources, Ahmedpur, Latur archive and Ahmedpur 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 “Ahmedpur, Latur”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ahmedpur, Latur” 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.