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Mateh Kola, Sari

village in Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5730462 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mateh Kola (Persian: مته كلا, also Romanized as Mateh Kolā; also known as Mat Kalā and Mat Kolā) is a village in Farim Rural District, Dodangeh District, Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 49, in 22 families. Decreased from 82 people in 2006.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mateh Kola, Sari” as village in Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mateh, Kola and Sari.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mateh, Kola and Sari providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mateh Kola, Sari”, the useful work is to connect “village in Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5730462. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2006.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Mateh Kola, Sari”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mateh Kola, Sari primary sources, Mateh Kola, Sari archive and Mateh 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 “Mateh Kola, Sari”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mateh Kola, Sari” 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.