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Banjarnegara

district in Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3667568 ↗
Source-derived summary

Banjarnegara is a town in Central Java, Indonesia and the seat of Banjarnegara Regency. It is 55 km from the Dieng Plateau region and a centre for ceramic arts.

Climate

Banjarnegara has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with moderate rainfall from June to September and heavy to very heavy rainfall from October to May. It is one of the wettest towns in Indonesia.

References

Turner, Peter (1997). Java. Melbourne: Lonely Planet. p. 247. ISBN 0-86442-314-4.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Banjarnegara” as district in Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Banjarnegara, district and Regency can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3667568. VIAF identifies the subject as 236968397. The Library of Congress control number is n78051998. Authority coordinates are -7.407, 109.696. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Banjarnegara”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Banjarnegara primary sources, Banjarnegara archive and Banjarnegara 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 “Banjarnegara”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Banjarnegara” 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.