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Brzeg Głogowski

village, Gmina Żukowice, Lower Silesian, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1821693 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brzeg Głogowski [ˈbʐɛk ɡwɔˈɡɔfski] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żukowice, within Głogów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

Brzeg Głogowski is approximately 6 km (4 mi) north-west of Żukowice, 13 km (8 mi) west of Głogów, and 101 km (63 mi) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brzeg Głogowski” is village, Gmina Żukowice, Lower Silesian, Poland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brzeg, Głogowski and village, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Brzeg, Głogowski and village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village, Gmina Żukowice, Lower Silesian, Poland” 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 Q1821693. Authority coordinates are 51.696, 15.915. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Brzeg Głogowski”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Brzeg Głogowski primary sources, Brzeg Głogowski archive and Brzeg 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 “Brzeg Głogowski”?
  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 “Brzeg Głogowski” 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.