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Daba

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ420917 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daba may refer to:

RAF El Daba, Daba, Egypt

Daba language, spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria

Daba (settlement), a Georgian equivalent of an urban-type settlement

2,4-Diaminobutyric acid

China

Daba (religion), a native religion of the Mosuo people, an ethnic group in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in China

Daba Mountains (大巴山), mountain range in Central China

Towns

Daba, Gansu (大坝), in Minqin County, Gansu

Daba, Heping County (大坝), in Heping County, Guangdong

Daba, Puning (大坝), in Puning, Guangdong

Daba, Yangjiang (大八), in Yangjiang, Guangdong

Daba, Guangxi (大坝), in Bobai County, Guangxi

Daba, Guizhou (大坝), in Renhuai, Guizhou

Daba, Liaoning (大巴), in Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning

Daba, Ningxia (大坝), in Qingtongxia, Ningxia

Townships

Daba Miao Ethnic Township (大坝苗族乡), in Xingwen County, Sichuan

Daba or Danbab Township (达巴乡), in Zanda County, Tibet

Daba Township, Zhaojue County (大坝乡), in Zhaojue County, Sichuan

Given name

Daba (Amharic: ዳባ) is a male given name of Ethiopian origin.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Daba” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Daba, Wikimedia and disambiguation, 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 152-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Daba, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” 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 Feb 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q420917. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Daba” 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.