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Lera, Bitola

village in Bitola Municipality, Macedonia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ3084622 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lera (Macedonian: Лера, Albanian: Lerë) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Capari.

Demographics

The Albanian population of Lera are Tosks, a subgroup of southern Albanians.

According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 122 inhabitants.

Editorial summary

“Lera, Bitola” enters the record as village in Bitola Municipality, Macedonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lera, Bitola and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lera, Bitola and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lera, Bitola” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lera, Bitola and village provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3084622. Authority coordinates are 41.102, 21.173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Lera, Bitola”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lera, Bitola primary sources, Lera, Bitola archive and Lera 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 “Lera, Bitola”?
  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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lera, Bitola” 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.