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Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District

rural district in Lorestan, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7122013 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District (Persian: دهستان پاچه لك شرقي) is in the Central District of Aligudarz County, Lorestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Sur.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 6,478 in 1,262 households. There were 6,165 inhabitants in 1,530 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 6,626 in 1,727 households. The most populous of its 25 villages was Deh-e Nasir, with 835 people.

Editorial summary

“Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District” enters the record as rural district in Lorestan, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pachehlak-e, Sharqi and Rural 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 Pachehlak-e, Sharqi and Rural.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pachehlak-e, Sharqi and Rural 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 Jun 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7122013. Authority coordinates are 33.309, 49.577. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District primary sources, Pachehlak-e Sharqi Rural District archive and Pachehlak-e 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 “Pachehlak-e Sharqi 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pachehlak-e Sharqi 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.