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WBC Maritsa Plovdiv

Bulgarian basketball club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ7947060 ↗
Source-derived summary

WBC Maritsa Plovdiv is a Bulgarian women's basketball club from Plovdiv. It won three national championships in a row between 1971 and 1974, and in 1980 and 1981 it reached the Ronchetti Cup's final, losing respectively to BC Levski Sofia and Montmontaza Zagreb.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “WBC Maritsa Plovdiv” is bulgarian basketball club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maritsa, Plovdiv and Bulgarian, 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—1971, 1974, 1980, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Maritsa, Plovdiv and Bulgarian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “bulgarian basketball club” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7947060. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1974, 1980 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “WBC Maritsa Plovdiv” 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.