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Durance, Lot-et-Garonne

commune in Lot-et-Garonne, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ1104452 ↗
Source-derived summary

Durance (French pronunciation: [dyʁɑ̃s]; Occitan: Durança) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.

Editorial summary

“Durance, Lot-et-Garonne” enters the record as commune in Lot-et-Garonne, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Durance, Lot-et-Garonne and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 16-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Durance, Lot-et-Garonne and commune.
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Why this record matters

“Durance, Lot-et-Garonne” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Durance, Lot-et-Garonne and commune 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 Oct 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1104452. VIAF identifies the subject as 239462530. Authority coordinates are 44.163, 0.161. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Durance, Lot-et-Garonne” 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.