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Biccari

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ51893 ↗
Source-derived summary

Biccari (Pugliese: Vìcchere) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy.

Main sights

Historic centre

Byzantine tower of Biccari

Tower Tertiveri

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Convent of St. Anthony (1477)

Church of the Annunciation

Romanesque and Gothic church of San Quirico

Cross roads of Port Wells (1473)

Portal medieval Gallo Palace (Piazza Don Luigi Sturzo)

Wooden altar carved and decorated in gold St.

Editorial summary

“Biccari” enters the record as italian comune. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Biccari, Italian and comune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1477, 1473—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Biccari, Italian and comune.
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Why this record matters

“Biccari” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Biccari, Italian and comune provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q51893. VIAF identifies the subject as 313284770. The Library of Congress control number is n2014078884. Authority coordinates are 41.400, 15.200. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1477 and 1473.

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This entry incorporates text from “Biccari” 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.