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Rudbārži Parish

parish in Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4992771 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rudbārži Parish (Latvian: Rudbāržu pagasts) is an administrative unit of Kuldīga Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The parish has a population of 1074 (as of 1/07/2010) and covers an area of 110.42 km2.

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The public source identifies “Rudbārži Parish” as parish in Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rudbārži, Parish and parish.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1074, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rudbārži, Parish and parish providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Rudbārži Parish”, the useful work is to connect “parish in Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4992771. Authority coordinates are 56.654, 21.879. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1074 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rudbārži Parish” 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.