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Kotka Piran

human settlement in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6434074 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kotka Piran is a village in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°58'42N 70°34'53E with an altitude of 364 metres (1197 feet).

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

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—1197—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kotka, Piran and human.
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“Kotka Piran” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kotka, Piran and human provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6434074. Authority coordinates are 32.580, 70.340. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1197.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kotka Piran” 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.