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São Nicolau

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ297607 ↗
Source-derived summary

São Nicolau, meaning "Saint Nicholas" in Portuguese, may refer to the following places:

Brazil

São Nicolau (Rio Grande do Sul), a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul

São Nicolau River, a river in the state of Piauí

Cape Verde

São Nicolau, Cape Verde, an island

Portugal

São Nicolau, Lisbon, a parish of the municipality of Lisbon

São Nicolau, Porto, a parish of the municipality of Porto

São Nicolau, Marco de Canaveses, a parish of the municipality of Marco de Canaveses

São Nicolau, Mesão Frio, a parish of the municipality of Mesão Frio

São Nicolau, Santarém, a parish of the municipality of Santarém.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “São Nicolau” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nicolau, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 105-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nicolau, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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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 Apr 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q297607. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “São Nicolau” 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.