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Bolquère

commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1101891 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bolquère (French pronunciation: [bɔlkɛʁ] ; Catalan: Bolquera) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localization

Bolquère is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades.

Transportation

Bolquère-Eyne station is the highest railway station on the SNCF network at an elevation of 1593m [the highest SNCF station is the Gare du Lac at 1914m on the stand-alone Train de L' Artouste line]. It serves the Yellow Train exclusively.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bolquère” as commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bolquère, commune and Pyrénées-Orientales.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 77-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 Bolquère, commune and Pyrénées-Orientales providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bolquère”, the useful work is to connect “commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, France” 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 May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1101891. Authority coordinates are 42.503, 2.078. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Bolquère primary sources, Bolquère archive and Bolquère 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bolquère” 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.