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Cabeza del Caballo

municipality in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1639363 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cabeza del Caballo is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is 90 kilometres (56 mi) from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 338 people.

Editorial summary

“Cabeza del Caballo” enters the record as municipality in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cabeza, Caballo and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 42-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Cabeza, Caballo and municipality.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Cabeza del Caballo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cabeza, Caballo and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1639363.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Cabeza del Caballo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cabeza del Caballo primary sources, Cabeza del Caballo archive and Cabeza 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 “Cabeza del Caballo”?
  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 “Cabeza del Caballo” 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.