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Zəyəm, Shamkir

human settlement in Shamkir, Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2021
Entity authorityQ4140363 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zəyəm (also, Dzagam, Dzegam, Dzegan, Guseynbeili, Guseynbeyli, Pzegam, and Star Agozam) is a village and municipality in the Shamkir Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 7,775.

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The public source identifies “Zəyəm, Shamkir” as human settlement in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zəyəm, Shamkir and human.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zəyəm, Shamkir and human providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q4140363. Authority coordinates are 40.901, 45.883. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zəyəm, Shamkir” 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.