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Erlingen

human settlement in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1355640 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erlingen is a small village and also an Ortsteil of the municipality Meitingen. The village belongs to the administrative district Augsburg in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is located between the cities Augsburg and Donauwörth. Until 1972, when the village was integrated into the municipality Meitingen, Erlingen was an independent municipality. Today the population in Erlingen is about 1,700 people. Erlingen belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Saint Clemens in Herbertshofen.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Erlingen, human and settlement.
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“Erlingen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Erlingen, human and settlement provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1355640. The first chronological checks are 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erlingen” 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.