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Halepa

neighborhood of Chania city, Greece

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ1237048 ↗
Source-derived summary

Halepa or Chalepa (Greek: Χαλέπα) was formerly a town in northern Crete. It is now one of the districts of Chania.

Its name was once well known owing to the Pact of Halepa, an agreement of 1878 on the administration of Crete as part of the Ottoman Empire. The local football team is Asteras Halepa.

Emmanouil Antoniadis and Konstantinos Mitsotakis were born in Halepa.

References

Great Greek Encyclopedia, vol. 24, p. 416.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Halepa” as neighborhood of Chania city, Greece. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Halepa, neighborhood and Chania.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1878—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Halepa, neighborhood and Chania providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Halepa”, the useful work is to connect “neighborhood of Chania city, Greece” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Dec 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1237048. Authority coordinates are 35.518, 24.040. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1878.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Halepa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Halepa primary sources, Halepa archive and Halepa 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 “Halepa”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Halepa” 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.