CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Medina de Pomar

municipality of Spain

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1614754 ↗
Source-derived summary

Medina de Pomar is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain, 77 km from Bilbao, and 8 kilometres from Villarcayo.

Medina de Pomar is part of the Comarca of Las Merindades.

Notable people

Ramón Chíes (1846–1893) – Journalist, editor, and political activist.

Chus Pereda (1938–2011) – Football player and manager.

Editorial summary

“Medina de Pomar” enters the record as municipality of Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Medina, Pomar and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1846, 1893, 1938, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Medina, Pomar and municipality.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Medina de Pomar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Medina, Pomar and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1614754. VIAF identifies the subject as 146563775. The Library of Congress control number is n78091858. Authority coordinates are 42.928, -3.487. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1846, 1893, 1938 and 2011.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Medina de Pomar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Medina de Pomar primary sources, Medina de Pomar archive and Medina 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 “Medina de Pomar”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Medina de Pomar” 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.