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Bézenac

former commune in Dordogne, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ690393 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bézenac (Occitan: Besenac) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Castels et Bézenac.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bézenac” is former commune in Dordogne, France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bézenac, former and commune, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bézenac, former and commune is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “former commune in Dordogne, France” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q690393. VIAF identifies the subject as 234849784. Authority coordinates are 44.844, 1.090. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bézenac” 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.