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Aumes

commune in Hérault, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1148810 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aumes (French pronunciation: [om]; Occitan: Aumas) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Guillaume d’Abbes de Cabrebolles (1718–1802), Encyclopédiste, died in Aumes.

Editorial summary

“Aumes” enters the record as commune in Hérault, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aumes, commune and Hérault 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—1718, 1802—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aumes, commune and Hérault.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1148810. VIAF identifies the subject as 238120101. Authority coordinates are 43.466, 3.463. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1718 and 1802.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aumes” 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.