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Saint-Ilpize

commune in Haute-Loire, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ817398 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Ilpize (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿ilpiz]; Occitan: Sent Ilpize) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.

Population

The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Saint-Ilpize in its geography at the given years. In 1845 the commune of Villeneuve-d'Allier was established from part of the commune of Saint-Ilpize.

Editorial summary

“Saint-Ilpize” enters the record as commune in Haute-Loire, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Ilpize, commune and Haute-Loire can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1845—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Saint-Ilpize, commune and Haute-Loire.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Saint-Ilpize” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saint-Ilpize, commune and Haute-Loire provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 May 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q817398. Authority coordinates are 45.196, 3.388. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1845.

Critical limits

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  2. Expand the search: follow Saint-Ilpize primary sources, Saint-Ilpize archive and Saint-Ilpize 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Ilpize” 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.