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Sahla Tahtania

village in Tamanrasset Province, Algeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ13509442 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sahla Tahtania (also written Sahela Tahtania) is a village in the commune of In Salah, in In Salah District, Tamanrasset Province, Algeria. It is located just to the west of the N1 national highway, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the town of In Salah.

Editorial summary

“Sahla Tahtania” enters the record as village in Tamanrasset Province, Algeria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sahla, Tahtania and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 45-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Sahla, Tahtania and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13509442. Authority coordinates are 27.277, 2.490. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “Sahla Tahtania”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sahla Tahtania primary sources, Sahla Tahtania archive and Sahla 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 “Sahla Tahtania”?
  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 “Sahla Tahtania” 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.