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Bu ol Kheyr

village in Tangestan County, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4982085
Source-derived summary

Bu ol Kheyr (Persian: بوالخير) is a village in, and the capital of, Bu ol Kheyr Rural District in Delvar District of Tangestan County, Bushehr province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,940 in 466 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,978 people in 520 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,252 people in 674 households.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bu ol Kheyr” is village in Tangestan County, Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kheyr, village and Tangestan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kheyr, village and Tangestan is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Tangestan County, Iran” 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

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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4982085. Authority coordinates are 28.531, 51.096. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Bu ol Kheyr”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bu ol Kheyr primary sources, Bu ol Kheyr archive and Kheyr 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 “Bu ol Kheyr”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Bu ol Kheyr” 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.