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Kinira River

stream in South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2021
Entity authorityQ35499793 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tyinirha River may identify either of two small rivers of Africa:

Tyinirha River, a tributary of the Mzimvubu River in Eastern Cape province, South Africa that formed one of the former boundaries of East Griqualand in the 1860s and 70s.

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“Kinira River” enters the record as stream in South Africa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kinira, River and stream can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kinira, River and stream.
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“Kinira River” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kinira, River and stream provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Mar 29, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q35499793. Authority coordinates are -30.810, 29.062. 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 “Kinira River” 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.