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Yiyang County, Jiangxi

county in Shangrao, Jiangxi, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ611478 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yiyang (simplified Chinese: 弋阳县; traditional Chinese: 弋陽縣; pinyin: Yìyáng Xiàn) is a county located in the center of the prefecture-level city of Shangrao, in the northeast of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. In 1999 it had a population of 359,164 inhabitants.

Administrative divisions

At present, Yiyang County has 1 subdistrict, 9 towns and 5 townships.

Editorial summary

“Yiyang County, Jiangxi” enters the record as county in Shangrao, Jiangxi, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yiyang, County and Jiangxi can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yiyang, County and Jiangxi.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Yiyang County, Jiangxi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yiyang, County and Jiangxi 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 Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q611478. VIAF identifies the subject as 123904571. The Library of Congress control number is nr91001213. Authority coordinates are 28.403, 117.431. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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 “Yiyang County, Jiangxi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yiyang County, Jiangxi primary sources, Yiyang County, Jiangxi archive and Yiyang 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 “Yiyang County, Jiangxi”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Yiyang County, Jiangxi” 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.