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Däwek

human settlement in Minzälä District, Tatarstan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ18774585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Däwek (Tatar: Дәвек, romanized: Däwek) is a rural locality (a derevnya) in Minzälä District, Tatarstan. The population was 337 as of 2010.

Däwek is located 14 km from Minzälä, district's administrative centre, and 283 km from Qazаn, republic's capital, by road.

The earliest known record of the settlement dates from 1717.

There are 11 streets in the village.

References

External links

"Дәвек". tatarica.org (in Tatar). Retrieved 2023-06-01.

Editorial summary

“Däwek” enters the record as human settlement in Minzälä District, Tatarstan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Däwek, human and settlement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1717, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Däwek, human and settlement.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18774585. Authority coordinates are 55.766, 52.908. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1717 and 2023.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Däwek”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Däwek primary sources, Däwek archive and Däwek 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 “Däwek”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Däwek” 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.