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Qaraqan Şıxlar

human settlement in Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2018
Entity authorityQ4540213 ↗
Source-derived summary

Qaraqan Şıxlar (also, Qarağan Şıxlar and Karagan-Shykhlar) is a village and municipality in the Agdash Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,892. The municipality consists of the villages of Qaraqan Şıxlar and Qaraqan Sədi.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Qaraqan Şıxlar” as human settlement in Azerbaijan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Qaraqan, Şıxlar and human can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Azerbaijan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jul 4, 2018. The linked authority identifier is Q4540213. Authority coordinates are 40.649, 47.538. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Qaraqan Şıxlar” 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.