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Rokle

village in Chomutov District of Ústí nad Labem region

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1116594 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rokle (German: Rachel) is a municipality and village in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.

Rokle lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) south-west of Chomutov, 63 km (39 mi) south-west of Ústí nad Labem, and 85 km (53 mi) west of Prague.

Administrative division

Rokle consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):

Demographics

Economy

Hradec substation is located in the municipality.

Editorial summary

“Rokle” enters the record as village in Chomutov District of Ústí nad Labem region. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rokle, village and Chomutov can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rokle, village and Chomutov.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rokle” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rokle, village and Chomutov provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1116594. Authority coordinates are 50.353, 13.299. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Rokle”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rokle primary sources, Rokle archive and Rokle 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 “Rokle”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rokle” 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.