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Karanje

human settlement in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ48734239 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karanje is a village in the Karmala taluka of Solapur district in Maharashtra state, India.

Demographics

Covering 1,005 hectares (2,480 acres) and comprising 420 households at the time of the 2011 census of India, Karanje had a population of 1799. There were 958 males and 841 females, with 184 people being aged six or younger.

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“Karanje” enters the record as human settlement in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karanje, human and settlement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1799—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karanje, human and settlement.
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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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48734239. Authority coordinates are 18.410, 75.245. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1799.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karanje” 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.