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Amt Scharmützelsee

collective municipality in Brandenburg state, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2021
Entity authorityQ479883 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amt Scharmützelsee is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Oder-Spree, in Brandenburg, Germany. Its seat is in Bad Saarow.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amt Scharmützelsee” as collective municipality in Brandenburg state, Germany. 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 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scharmützelsee, collective and municipality 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 collective municipality in Brandenburg state, Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Oct 26, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q479883. VIAF identifies the subject as 236543624. Authority coordinates are 52.286, 14.060. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Amt Scharmützelsee” 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.