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Pilskalne Parish, Aizkraukle Municipality

parish in Aizkraukle Municipality, Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ3800930 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pilskalne Parish (Latvian: Pilskalnes pagasts) is an administrative unit of Aizkraukle Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia. From 2009 until 2021, it was part of the former Nereta Municipality and before 2009 of the Aizkraukle district.

Villages and settlements of Pilskalne Parish

Gricgale

Pilkalne

Pilskalne

Changes in population size

Within current borders, according to CSP data.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pilskalne Parish, Aizkraukle Municipality” is parish in Aizkraukle Municipality, Latvia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pilskalne, Parish and Aizkraukle, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2009, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945. For this dossier, Pilskalne, Parish and Aizkraukle is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “parish in Aizkraukle Municipality, Latvia” 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

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3800930. Authority coordinates are 56.221, 25.163. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2021.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pilskalne Parish, Aizkraukle Municipality” 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.