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Kilimli District

district of Zonguldak, northwestern Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ49105464 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kilimli District is a district of the Zonguldak Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Kilimli. Its area is 145 km2, and its population is 33,121 (2022). The district was established in 2012.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kilimli District” as district of Zonguldak, northwestern Turkey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kilimli, District and district.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-12-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kilimli, District and district providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kilimli District”, the useful work is to connect “district of Zonguldak, northwestern Turkey” 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 Jun 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q49105464. Authority coordinates are 41.482, 31.834. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2012.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Kilimli District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kilimli District primary sources, Kilimli District archive and Kilimli 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 “Kilimli District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kilimli 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.