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Erdélyi Napló

periodical literature

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2021
Entity authorityQ580732 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erdélyi Napló (“Transylvanian Journal”) is a Hungarian language right-wing weekly published in Cluj-Napoca, and distributed regionally throughout Transylvania.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Erdélyi Napló” is periodical literature. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Erdélyi, Napló and periodical, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 18-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Erdélyi, Napló and periodical is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Erdélyi Napló” 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.