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Gara Choqa, Hamadan

village in Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3663388 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gara Choqa (Persian: گراچقا) is a village in Hegmataneh Rural District of the Central District in Hamadan County, Hamadan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,252 in 561 households. The following census in 2011 counted 2,354 people in 680 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,299 people in 725 households.

Editorial summary

“Gara Choqa, Hamadan” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gara, Choqa and Hamadan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gara, Choqa and Hamadan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3663388. Authority coordinates are 34.855, 48.519. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Gara Choqa, Hamadan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gara Choqa, Hamadan primary sources, Gara Choqa, Hamadan archive and Gara 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 “Gara Choqa, Hamadan”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gara Choqa, Hamadan” 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.