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Quintanilla de Onésimo

municipality of Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1640409 ↗
Source-derived summary

Quintanilla de Onésimo is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census from the National Statistics Institute, the municipality has a population of 1,139 inhabitants.

The municipality was originally known as Quintanilla de Abajo, but was renamed in 1941 in honour of Onésimo Redondo (1905-1936), who was born there. Redondo was a founder of the Castilian Juntas of Hispanic Action (JCAH) and a prominent member of the Falange. He was killed in combat in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Quintanilla de Onésimo” is municipality of Spain. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Quintanilla, Onésimo and municipality, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1941, 1905, 1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Quintanilla, Onésimo and municipality is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “municipality of Spain” 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

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 May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1640409. VIAF identifies the subject as 138556681. The Library of Congress control number is n98106311. Authority coordinates are 41.627, -4.364. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1941, 1905 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Quintanilla de Onésimo” 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.