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Pareh Sar

city in Gilan Province, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ1753980 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pareh Sar (Persian: پره سر) is a city in, and the capital of, Pareh Sar District of Rezvanshahr County, Gilan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 7,875 in 2,027 households. The following census in 2011 counted 7,626 people in 2,188 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 8,016 people in 2,536 households.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pareh Sar” is city in Gilan Province, Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pareh, city and Gilan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pareh, city and Gilan is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “city in Gilan Province, Iran” 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

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 Nov 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1753980. Authority coordinates are 37.599, 49.074. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Pareh Sar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pareh Sar primary sources, Pareh Sar archive and Pareh 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 “Pareh Sar”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pareh Sar” 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.