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Piquera de San Esteban

village in the Spanish municipality San Esteban de Gormaz

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ6076660 ↗
Source-derived summary

Piquera de San Esteban is a village in Soria, Spain. It is part of the municipality of San Esteban de Gormaz. The village had 50 inhabitants in 2001.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Piquera de San Esteban” is village in the Spanish municipality San Esteban de Gormaz. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Piquera, Esteban and village, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Piquera, Esteban and village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in the Spanish municipality San Esteban de Gormaz” 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 strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6076660. Authority coordinates are 41.508, -3.258. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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 “Piquera de San Esteban”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Piquera de San Esteban primary sources, Piquera de San Esteban archive and Piquera 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 “Piquera de San Esteban”?
  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 “Piquera de San Esteban” 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.