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Apolonia, Texas

human settlement in United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ21196327 ↗
Source-derived summary

Apolonia is an unincorporated community in Grimes County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

History

A post office was established at Apolonia in 1889, and remained in operation until 1907. Apolonia was originally built up chiefly by Polish Roman Catholics, who named the community after Saint Apollonia.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Apolonia, Texas” is human settlement in United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Apolonia, Texas and human, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1889, 1907—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Apolonia, Texas and human is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jun 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21196327. Authority coordinates are 30.493, -95.910. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889 and 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Apolonia, Texas” 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.