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Canton of Barlin

canton of France (until March 2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1430595 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Canton of Barlin was one of the 14 cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune, in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France. It had 18,003 inhabitants in 2012. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canton of Barlin” is canton of France (until March 2015). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canton, Barlin and canton, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Canton, Barlin and canton is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “canton of France (until March 2015)” 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

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1430595. Authority coordinates are 50.485, 2.606. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2015.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Canton of Barlin” 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.