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Gmina Bystra-Sidzina

rural gmina of Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2021
Entity authorityQ1116177 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gmina Bystra-Sidzina is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sucha County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Bystra; it also contains the village of Sidzina.

The gmina covers an area of 80.43 square kilometres (31.1 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 6,423.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Bystra-Sidzina is bordered by the town of Jordanów and by the gminas of Jabłonka, Jordanów, Maków Podhalański, Spytkowice and Zawoja.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gmina Bystra-Sidzina” is rural gmina of Poland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gmina, Bystra-Sidzina and rural, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gmina, Bystra-Sidzina and rural is the immediate research focus.
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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 Apr 6, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q1116177. VIAF identifies the subject as 165043797. Authority coordinates are 49.633, 19.767. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gmina Bystra-Sidzina” 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.