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Dar-Salama

village in Anjouan, Comoros

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ3015900 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dar-Salama is a village on the island of Anjouan in the Comoros. According to the 1991 census the town had a population of 601. The current estimate for 2009 is 1,059 people.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dar-Salama” as village in Anjouan, Comoros. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dar-Salama, village and Anjouan.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dar-Salama, village and Anjouan providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dar-Salama”, the useful work is to connect “village in Anjouan, Comoros” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jul 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3015900. Authority coordinates are -12.251, 44.388. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2009.

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 “Dar-Salama”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dar-Salama primary sources, Dar-Salama archive and Dar-Salama 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 “Dar-Salama”?
  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 “Dar-Salama” 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.