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Kummannoor

village in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24947152 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kummannoor is a small village in the Kottayam district, located 7 km from Pala and 22 km from district headquarters.

Location

Kummannoor is located near the Kidangoor Town and the main attraction is the Meenachil River.

Airport

The nearest airport is the Cochin International airport which is 80 km away.

Access

The nearest bus stations are in Pala and Ettumanoor.

You can take a bus from Pala to Kummannoor. There are many private buses & KSRTC Buses available to Kummannoor.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kummannoor” is village in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kummannoor, village and Pathanamthitta, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 80-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kummannoor, village and Pathanamthitta is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24947152. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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 “Kummannoor”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kummannoor primary sources, Kummannoor archive and Kummannoor 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 “Kummannoor”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kummannoor” 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.