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Said Kandi, Mahneshan

village in Zanjan, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ15274368 ↗
Source-derived summary

Said Kandi (Persian: سعيدكندي) is a village in Owryad Rural District of the Central District in Mahneshan County, Zanjan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 416 in 73 households. The following census in 2011 counted 303 people in 23 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 252 people in 69 households.

Editorial summary

“Said Kandi, Mahneshan” enters the record as village in Zanjan, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Said, Kandi and Mahneshan 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Said, Kandi and Mahneshan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Said Kandi, Mahneshan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Said, Kandi and Mahneshan 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 Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15274368. Authority coordinates are 36.839, 47.310. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

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 “Said Kandi, Mahneshan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Said Kandi, Mahneshan primary sources, Said Kandi, Mahneshan archive and Said 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 “Said Kandi, Mahneshan”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Said Kandi, Mahneshan” 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.