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Le Gheer

hamlet 15km south of Ypres, Belgium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ18345588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gheer is a hamlet of Wallonia in the municipality of Comines-Warneton, district of Warneton, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

The hamlet is situated on the Warneton - Ploegsteert road, approximately 15 km south of Ypres .

The hamlet was completely destroyed in the First World War.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Le Gheer” is hamlet 15km south of Ypres, Belgium. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gheer, hamlet and 15km, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 48-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, Gheer, hamlet and 15km is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “hamlet 15km south of Ypres, Belgium” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18345588. Authority coordinates are 50.733, 2.900. 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 “Le Gheer” 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.