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Baitudasht IV

archaeological site in Tajikistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4848743 ↗
Source-derived summary

The ancient town of Baitudasht IV was located in the Pyange Region of Tajikistan.

World Heritage Status

This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on November 9, 1999 in the Cultural category.

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References

The Site of Ancient Town of Baitudasht IV - UNESCO World Heritage Centre Retrieved 2009-03-04.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Baitudasht IV” as archaeological site in Tajikistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Baitudasht, archaeological and site.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Baitudasht, archaeological and site providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Baitudasht IV”, the useful work is to connect “archaeological site in Tajikistan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4848743. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2009.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baitudasht IV” 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.