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Nazluchay Rural District

rural district in West Azerbaijan, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5681079
Source-derived summary

Nazluchay Rural District (Persian: دهستان نازلوچائ) is in Nazlu District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Nazlu.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 10,624 in 2,104 households. There were 14,455 inhabitants in 2,690 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 13,727 in 2,803 households. The most populous of its 34 villages was Qaralar-e Tasuji, with 2,844 people.

Editorial summary

“Nazluchay Rural District” enters the record as rural district in West Azerbaijan, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nazluchay, Rural and District 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—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nazluchay, Rural and District.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5681079. Authority coordinates are 37.717, 44.933. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

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 “Nazluchay Rural District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nazluchay Rural District primary sources, Nazluchay Rural District archive and Nazluchay 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 “Nazluchay Rural District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from Nazluchay Rural District” 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.