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Golem, Kavajë

commune of Kavajë, Albania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ747820 ↗
Source-derived summary

Golem (Albanian definite form: Golemi) is a coastal village and an administrative unit in Tirana County, Albania. A former rural municipality, at the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kavajë. The population at the 2011 census was 6,994. The area along the coast is one of Albania's major beach destinations where many resorts, hotels, and vacation homes are located. Golem has experienced rapid urban development and the problems associated with it.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Golem, Kavajë” is commune of Kavajë, Albania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Golem, Kavajë and commune, 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—2015, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Golem, Kavajë and commune is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “commune of Kavajë, Albania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q747820. Authority coordinates are 41.227, 19.545. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2011.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Golem, Kavajë”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Golem, Kavajë primary sources, Golem, Kavajë archive and Golem 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Golem, Kavajë” 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.