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Bay of Ceuta

bay on the African coast of the Straits of Gibraltar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2021
Entity authorityQ4874195 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bay of Ceuta is a bay on the African coast of the Straits of Gibraltar. It accounts for the majority of the north coast of the Spanish city of Ceuta. It stretches from Punta Blanca in the west to Isla de Santa Catalina, off the coast of the Península de Almina in the east, a distance of eight kilometres (five miles). Ceuta's harbour lies on the bay.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bay of Ceuta” as bay on the African coast of the Straits of Gibraltar. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ceuta, African and coast.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 68-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 Ceuta, African and coast providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bay of Ceuta”, the useful work is to connect “bay on the African coast of the Straits of Gibraltar” 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 Mar 29, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q4874195. Authority coordinates are 35.904, -5.319. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bay of Ceuta” 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.