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Piperovo, Kyustendil Province

village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ1088094 ↗
Source-derived summary

Piperovo (Bulgarian: Пиперево) is a village in Dupnitsa Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Piperovo, Kyustendil Province” as village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 13-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Piperovo, Kyustendil and Province can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Dupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil oblast, Bulgaria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Oct 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1088094.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Piperovo, Kyustendil Province”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Piperovo, Kyustendil Province primary sources, Piperovo, Kyustendil Province archive and Piperovo 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 “Piperovo, Kyustendil Province”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Piperovo, Kyustendil Province” 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.