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São Tomé de Negrelos

civil parish in Santo Tirso

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1600659 ↗
Source-derived summary

São Tomé de Negrelos is located 10 km northeast of the city of Santo Tirso near Vila das Aves. Located in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,032, in an area of 6.12 km².

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “São Tomé de Negrelos” is civil parish in Santo Tirso. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tomé, Negrelos and civil, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tomé, Negrelos and civil is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “civil parish in Santo Tirso” 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 citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1600659. VIAF identifies the subject as 855153289951132770008. Authority coordinates are 41.346, -8.404. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 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.

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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.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “São Tomé de Negrelos”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow São Tomé de Negrelos primary sources, São Tomé de Negrelos archive and Tomé 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “São Tomé de Negrelos” 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.