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Pataveh District

district in Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ7144298
Source-derived summary

Pataveh District (Persian: بخش پاتاوه) is in Dana County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Pataveh.

History

After the 2006 National Census, the village of Pataveh was elevated to the status of a city.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 census, the district's population was 25,353 in 5,066 households. The following census in 2011 counted 25,686 people in 6,154 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the district as 25,064 inhabitants in 6,740 households.

Editorial summary

“Pataveh District” enters the record as district in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pataveh, District and district 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 Pataveh, District and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pataveh District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pataveh, District and district 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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7144298. Authority coordinates are 31.110, 51.104. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. 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 “Pataveh District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pataveh District primary sources, Pataveh District archive and Pataveh 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 “Pataveh District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Pataveh 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.