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Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh

village in Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5806597
Source-derived summary

Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh (Persian: ميهمان شهرسلطانيه) is a village in Soltaniyeh Rural District of the Central District in Soltaniyeh County, Zanjan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 28 in 10 households, when it was in the former Soltaniyeh District of Abhar County. The following census in 2011 counted 31 people in 13 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 15 people in eight households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Soltaniyeh County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh” is village in Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mihman-e, Shahr and Soltaniyeh, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mihman-e, Shahr and Soltaniyeh is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Iran” 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

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 Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5806597. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

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 “Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh primary sources, Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh archive and Mihman-e 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 “Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Mihman-e Shahr Soltaniyeh” 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.