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Balıklıçeşme, Biga

village in Biga, Çanakkale, northwestern Turkey

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ6862753 ↗
Source-derived summary

Balıklıçeşme is a village in the Biga District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 1,155 (2021). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).

Editorial summary

“Balıklıçeşme, Biga” enters the record as village in Biga, Çanakkale, northwestern Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Balıklıçeşme, Biga and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Balıklıçeşme, Biga and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6862753. Authority coordinates are 40.310, 27.082. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2013.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Balıklıçeşme, Biga”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Balıklıçeşme, Biga primary sources, Balıklıçeşme, Biga archive and Balıklıçeşme 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 “Balıklıçeşme, Biga”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Balıklıçeşme, Biga” 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.