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Sala Parish, Mārupe Municipality

parish in Mārupe Municipality, Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ4992263 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sala Parish (Latvian: Salas pagasts) is a territorial unit of Mārupe Municipality in Latvia. From 2009 until 2021, it was part of Babīte Municipality, after Babīte parish and Sala parish were merged as part of the municipality. Prior to 2009, it was part of Riga district. Sala Parish is defined by Latvian law as a part of the region of Vidzeme.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sala Parish, Mārupe Municipality” as parish in Mārupe Municipality, Latvia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2009, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sala, Parish and Mārupe can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as parish in Mārupe Municipality, Latvia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4992263. Authority coordinates are 56.918, 23.654. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2021.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sala Parish, Mārupe Municipality” 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.