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Brzeście, Jędrzejów County

village in Świętokrzyskie, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4981421 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brzeście [ˈbʐɛɕt͡ɕɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wodzisław, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) west of Wodzisław, 18 km (11 mi) south-west of Jędrzejów, and 54 km (34 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kielce.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Brzeście, Jędrzejów County” as village in Świętokrzyskie, Poland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brzeście, Jędrzejów and County.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 48-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 Brzeście, Jędrzejów and County providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Brzeście, Jędrzejów County”, the useful work is to connect “village in Świętokrzyskie, Poland” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4981421. Authority coordinates are 50.514, 20.131. 1 of 1 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 “Brzeście, Jędrzejów County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Brzeście, Jędrzejów County primary sources, Brzeście, Jędrzejów County archive and Brzeście 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 “Brzeście, Jędrzejów County”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Brzeście, Jędrzejów County” 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.