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Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)

village in the Czech Republic in Žďár nad Sázavou District

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ72383 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kyjov is a municipality and village in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 60 inhabitants.

Kyjov lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of Žďár nad Sázavou, 22 km (14 mi) east of Jihlava, and 127 km (79 mi) south-east of Prague.

Editorial summary

“Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)” enters the record as village in the Czech Republic in Žďár nad Sázavou District. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kyjov, Žďár and Sázavou can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 51-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 Kyjov, Žďár and Sázavou.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kyjov, Žďár and Sázavou provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q72383.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District) primary sources, Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou District) archive and Kyjov 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

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  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kyjov (Žďár nad Sázavou 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.