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Gao Cercle

cercle of Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ1493783 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gao Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Gao Region of north-eastern Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the town of Gao.

During the Northern Mali conflict in 2012, the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) lost the region to the Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In 2013, the Islamists then lost most of the region to French and Malian soldiers.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Gao Cercle” as cercle of Mali. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-06-07. The account is most persuasive where Cercle, cercle and Mali can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cercle of Mali. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jan 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1493783. Authority coordinates are 16.750, 0.583. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gao Cercle” 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.