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Âouinet Bel Egrâ

village in Tindouf Province, Algeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2023
Entity authorityQ8077035 ↗
Source-derived summary

Âouinet Bel Egrâ (also known as Aouinet Bélagraa) is a village in the commune of Tindouf, in Tindouf Province, Algeria. It is in the Sahara Desert, approximately 160 kilometres south-east of Tindouf. There is a Saharawi Refugee camp in the village named Dakhla.

Editorial summary

“Âouinet Bel Egrâ” enters the record as village in Tindouf Province, Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Âouinet, Egrâ and village 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 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Âouinet, Egrâ and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Âouinet Bel Egrâ” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Âouinet, Egrâ and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q8077035. VIAF identifies the subject as 110148570750124312409. Authority coordinates are 26.830, -6.895. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Âouinet Bel Egrâ”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Âouinet Bel Egrâ primary sources, Âouinet Bel Egrâ archive and Âouinet 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 “Âouinet Bel Egrâ”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Âouinet Bel Egrâ” 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.