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Avanos District

district of Nevşehir, central Turkey

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2023
Entity authorityQ49100953 ↗
Source-derived summary

Avanos District is a district of the Nevşehir Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Avanos. Its area is 995 km2, and its population is 32,477 (2022). The highest point is Mt. İsmail Sivrisi at 1,756 m (5,761 ft).

Editorial summary

“Avanos District” enters the record as district of Nevşehir, central Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Avanos, District and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Avanos, District and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Avanos District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Avanos, District and district 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 May 30, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q49100953. Authority coordinates are 38.724, 34.853. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Avanos District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Avanos District primary sources, Avanos District archive and Avanos 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 “Avanos District”?
  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 “Avanos District” 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.