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Dompierre-sur-Héry

former commune in Nièvre, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ683929 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dompierre-sur-Héry (French pronunciation: [dɔ̃pjɛʁ syʁ eʁi]) is a former commune in the Nièvre department in central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune Beaulieu. In 2022, the estimated population was 72.

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“Dompierre-sur-Héry” enters the record as former commune in Nièvre, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dompierre-sur-Héry, former and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q683929. Authority coordinates are 47.265, 3.564. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dompierre-sur-Héry” 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.