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Barzia

village in Berkovitsa municipality, Montana oblast, Bulgaria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ2455504 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barzia (Bulgarian: Бързия, also transliterated as Burzia, Barziya, Burziya or Bŭrziya) is a village (село) in northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Berkovitsa Municipality (община Берковица) of the Montana Province (Област Монтана).

Honours

Barziya Peak on Loubet Coast, Antarctica is named after the village.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Barzia” as village in Berkovitsa municipality, Montana oblast, Bulgaria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Barzia, village and Berkovitsa.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Barzia, village and Berkovitsa providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Barzia”, the useful work is to connect “village in Berkovitsa municipality, Montana oblast, Bulgaria” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2455504. Authority coordinates are 43.198, 23.161. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Barzia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Barzia primary sources, Barzia archive and Barzia 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 “Barzia”?
  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 “Barzia” 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.