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Saint-Laurent-des-Autels

former commune in Maine-et-Loire, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ1382533 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Laurent-des-Autels (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ loʁɑ̃ de.z‿otɛl] ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 15 December 2015, it was merged into the new commune Orée-d'Anjou. Its population was 2,248 in 2022.

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“Saint-Laurent-des-Autels” enters the record as former commune in Maine-et-Loire, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Laurent-des-Autels, former and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1382533. Authority coordinates are 47.287, -1.191. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Laurent-des-Autels” 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.