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Malval

commune in Creuse, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ203629 ↗
Source-derived summary

Malval (French pronunciation: [malval]; Limousin: Malaval) is a former commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Linard-Malval.

Geography

A very small farming village, situated by the banks of the Petite Creuse river, some 12 miles (19 km) north of Guéret at the junction of the D56 and the D6 roads.

Sights

The church of St. Valérie, dating from the twelfth century.

The ruins of a fourteenth-century castle.

A restored watermill.

Editorial summary

“Malval” enters the record as commune in Creuse, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malval, commune and Creuse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Malval, commune and Creuse.
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“Malval” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Malval, commune and Creuse provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q203629. Authority coordinates are 46.350, 1.885. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Malval” 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.