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Balgale Parish

parish of Latvia in Talsi Municipality

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4850775 ↗
Source-derived summary

Balgale Parish (Latvian: Balgales pagasts) is an administrative unit of Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Balgale Parish” as parish of Latvia in Talsi Municipality. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Balgale, Parish and parish.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 13-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Balgale, Parish and parish providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Balgale Parish”, the useful work is to connect “parish of Latvia in Talsi Municipality” 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 Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4850775. Authority coordinates are 57.183, 22.874. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Balgale Parish”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Balgale Parish primary sources, Balgale Parish archive and Balgale 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

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  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Balgale Parish” 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.