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Ravnaja

human settlement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2020
Entity authorityQ645379
Source-derived summary

Ravnaja (Serbian Cyrillic: Равнаја) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Krupanj municipality, in the Mačva District of Central Serbia. The village had a population of 323 in 2002, all of whom were ethnic Serbs.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ravnaja” is human settlement. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ravnaja, human and settlement, 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—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ravnaja, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “human settlement” 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.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q645379. Authority coordinates are 44.353, 19.389. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from Ravnaja” 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.