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Nova Luzitânia

municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1648351 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nova Luzitânia (Portuguese for "New Lusitania") is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 4,160 (2020 est.) in an area of 73.82 km2 (29 sq mi). The elevation is 420 m (1,378 ft).

Media

In telecommunications, the city was served by Companhia de Telecomunicações do Estado de São Paulo until 1975, when it began to be served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012.

The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nova Luzitânia” as municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1975, 1998, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nova, Luzitânia and municipality can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1648351. Authority coordinates are -20.856, -50.262. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1975, 1998 and 2012.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

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 “Nova Luzitânia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nova Luzitânia primary sources, Nova Luzitânia archive and Nova 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 “Nova Luzitânia” 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.