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Gafurlu, Sungurlu

village in Sungurlu, Çorum, north-central Turkey

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ6733583 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gafurlu is a village in the Sungurlu District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 25 (2022).

Editorial summary

“Gafurlu, Sungurlu” enters the record as village in Sungurlu, Çorum, north-central Turkey. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gafurlu, Sungurlu and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gafurlu, Sungurlu and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6733583. Authority coordinates are 40.248, 34.591. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Gafurlu, Sungurlu”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gafurlu, Sungurlu primary sources, Gafurlu, Sungurlu archive and Gafurlu 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 “Gafurlu, Sungurlu”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gafurlu, Sungurlu” 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.