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Kullaa

former municipality of Finland, now part of Ulvila

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ4131730 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kullaa is a former municipality of Finland. It joined Ulvila on 1 January 2005. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region.

The municipality had a population of 1,601 (2003) and covered an area of 283.19 km² of which 19.46 km² is water. The population density was 5.7 inhabitants per km². The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kullaa” as former municipality of Finland, now part of Ulvila. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kullaa, former and municipality can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former municipality of Finland, now part of Ulvila. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Nov 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4131730. Authority coordinates are 61.467, 22.167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kullaa” 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.