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Daghalian-e Bala

village in East Azerbaijan, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6045022 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daghalian-e Bala (Persian: دغليان بالا, also Romanized as Daghalīān-e Bālā; also known as Daghlīān-e 'Olyā, Dāghlīān-e 'Olyā, and Daghliyan Olya) is a village in Azghan Rural District, in the Central District of Ahar County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 221, in 48 families.

Editorial summary

“Daghalian-e Bala” enters the record as village in East Azerbaijan, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daghalian-e, Bala and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Daghalian-e, Bala and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Daghalian-e Bala” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Daghalian-e, Bala and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6045022. Authority coordinates are 38.468, 46.788. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Daghalian-e Bala”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Daghalian-e Bala primary sources, Daghalian-e Bala archive and Daghalian-e 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 “Daghalian-e Bala”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Daghalian-e Bala” 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.