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Hlybokaye district

administrative division (rajon) of Viciebsk region, Belarus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ2092119 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hlybokaye district or Hlybokaje district (Belarusian: Глыбоцкі раён; Russian: Глубокский район) is a district (raion) in Vitebsk region, Belarus. The administrative center of the district is the town of Hlybokaye.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hlybokaye district” is administrative division (rajon) of Viciebsk region, Belarus. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hlybokaye, district and administrative, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-01-15. For this dossier, Hlybokaye, district and administrative is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “administrative division (rajon) of Viciebsk region, Belarus” 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

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2092119. VIAF identifies the subject as 156319691. The Library of Congress control number is no2007113623. Authority coordinates are 55.133, 27.683. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Hlybokaye district” 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.