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KK Osječki sokol

basketball team in Osijek, Croatia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6332282 ↗
Source-derived summary

Košarkaški klub Osječki sokol is a professional basketball club based in Osijek, Croatia. Osječki sokol currently competes in Croatian second league, division East.

Club was founded in 1996 as KK Hrvatski sokol. In 2005 it merged with troubled traditional Osijek's basketball club KK Olimpija (formerly known as KK Osijek) to form KK Osijek 2006. In 2010 name was changed to the current one.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “KK Osječki sokol” is basketball team in Osijek, Croatia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Osječki, sokol and basketball, 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2005, 2006, 2010—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1996, 2005—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Osječki, sokol and basketball is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “basketball team in Osijek, Croatia” 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.

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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 May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6332282. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2005, 2006 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “KK Osječki sokol” 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.