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Moviya

village in Gujarat state, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2769695
Source-derived summary

Moviya is a village located in Rajkot district in the state of Gujarat, India. The village is located at about 42 km from the District, Rajkot. The village follows the Panchayati raj system. The village has undergone transformation under the panchayat. There has been use of advanced technology in education. Efforts have been made for empowerment of women and increasing the security in the village. Some of the facilities provided by the panchayat include local, gutter project, health care centre, banking facility.

Demographics

The population of Moviya was 8000 as per 2001 census of India, which increased to 10,000 in 2011. As of June 2012, the population is 13,000.

Urbanization

There is a 65 KV sub-station that supplies power to the village.

Editorial summary

“Moviya” enters the record as village in Gujarat state, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moviya, village and Gujarat 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—2001, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Moviya, village and Gujarat.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2769695. Authority coordinates are 21.915, 70.847. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2011 and 2012.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Moviya”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Moviya primary sources, Moviya archive and Moviya 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 “Moviya”?
  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 Moviya” 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.