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Fresnillo de las Dueñas

municipality of Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1643897 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fresnillo de las Dueñas is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 349 inhabitants.

On 1 February 1095, Count García Ordóñez and his wife, Infanta Urraca Garcés, sister of Sancho IV of Navarre, granted a fuero of privileges to Fresnillo, then a part of their lordship centred on Nájera.

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The public source identifies “Fresnillo de las Dueñas” as municipality of Spain. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fresnillo, Dueñas and municipality.

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—2004, 1095—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fresnillo, Dueñas and municipality providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Fresnillo de las Dueñas”, the useful work is to connect “municipality of Spain” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1643897. Authority coordinates are 41.647, -3.644. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 1095.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fresnillo de las Dueñas” 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.