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Canton of Château-Landon

canton of France (until March 2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ478370 ↗
Source-derived summary

The canton of Château-Landon is a French former administrative division, located in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau, in the Seine-et-Marne département (Île-de-France région). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 15 communes, which joined the canton of Nemours in 2015.

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The public source identifies “Canton of Château-Landon” as canton of France (until March 2015). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Canton, Château-Landon and canton.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Canton, Château-Landon and canton providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Canton of Château-Landon”, the useful work is to connect “canton of France (until March 2015)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q478370. VIAF identifies the subject as 173037001. Authority coordinates are 48.150, 2.703. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Canton of Château-Landon” 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.