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Canton of Pessac-1

canton of France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2017
Entity authorityQ27055 ↗
Source-derived summary

The canton of Pessac-1 is an administrative division of the Gironde department, southwestern France. It was created in 1982. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Pessac.

Editorial summary

“Canton of Pessac-1” enters the record as canton of France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Canton, Pessac-1 and canton can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1982, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-03-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Canton, Pessac-1 and canton.
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Why this record matters

“Canton of Pessac-1” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Canton, Pessac-1 and canton provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2017. The linked authority identifier is Q27055. Authority coordinates are 44.806, -0.632. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Canton of Pessac-1” 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.