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Corte de Peleas

municipality in the province of Badajoz, 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 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1372541 ↗
Source-derived summary

Corte de Peleas is a Spanish municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. It has a population of 1,257 (2007) and an area of 42.3 km2.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Corte de Peleas” is municipality in the province of Badajoz, Spain. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Corte, Peleas and municipality, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Corte, Peleas and municipality is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “municipality in the province of Badajoz, Spain” 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

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1372541. VIAF identifies the subject as 316734380. Authority coordinates are 38.725, -6.671. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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 “Corte de Peleas”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Corte de Peleas primary sources, Corte de Peleas archive and Corte 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 “Corte de Peleas”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Corte de Peleas” 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.