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Pierławki, Braniewo County

village in Warmian-Masurian, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3387971 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pierławki [pjɛrˈwafki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoskinia, within Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, and in 1772–1945 it belonged to Prussia and Germany (East Prussia).

Editorial summary

“Pierławki, Braniewo County” enters the record as village in Warmian-Masurian, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierławki, Braniewo and County can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1772, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierławki, Braniewo and County.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pierławki, Braniewo County” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pierławki, Braniewo and County provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3387971. Authority coordinates are 54.263, 19.772. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1772 and 1945.

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 “Pierławki, Braniewo County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pierławki, Braniewo County primary sources, Pierławki, Braniewo County archive and Pierławki 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 “Pierławki, Braniewo County”?
  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 “Pierławki, Braniewo County” 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.