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Debel dyal

village in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo oblast, Bulgaria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1079802 ↗
Source-derived summary

Debel dyal is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria.

Debel dyal is the birthplace of Lazarus Bulgarski (Bulg. Лазар Български), a Christian martyr born 1774, death April 23, 1802.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Debel dyal” is village in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo oblast, Bulgaria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Debel, dyal and village, 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—1774, 1802—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Debel, dyal and village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Gabrovo municipality, Gabrovo oblast, Bulgaria” 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 Q1079802. Authority coordinates are 42.875, 25.180. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1774 and 1802.

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

This entry incorporates text from “Debel dyal” 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.