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Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek

village in Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4857877 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bar Aftab (Persian: برافتاب, also Romanized as Bar Āftāb; also known as Bar Āftāb-e Manganān, Bar Āftāb-e Monganān, Bar Aftau, and Bat Aftau) is a village in Haparu Rural District, in the Central District of Bagh-e Malek County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 562, in 104 families.

Editorial summary

“Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aftab, Bagh-e and Malek can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aftab, Bagh-e and Malek.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aftab, Bagh-e and Malek provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4857877. Authority coordinates are 31.469, 49.943. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek primary sources, Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek archive and Aftab 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 “Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bar Aftab, Bagh-e Malek” 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.