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Nossa Senhora da Piedade

civil parish in Ourém

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ2001674 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nossa Senhora da Piedade is a civil parish in the municipality of Ourém, Portugal. The population in 2021 was 7,250, up from 7,217 in 2011, in an area of 20.52 km2.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nossa Senhora da Piedade” as civil parish in Ourém. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nossa, Senhora and Piedade.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nossa, Senhora and Piedade providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nossa Senhora da Piedade”, the useful work is to connect “civil parish in Ourém” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2001674. Authority coordinates are 39.671, -8.576. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2011.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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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  2. Expand the search: follow Nossa Senhora da Piedade primary sources, Nossa Senhora da Piedade archive and Nossa 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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This entry incorporates text from “Nossa Senhora da Piedade” 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.