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Shutavar

village in Kohgiluyeh County, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5831303
Source-derived summary

Shutavar (Persian: شوتاور) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Gharbi Rural District of Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,247 in 221 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,030 people in 213 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 899 people in 200 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shutavar” as village in Kohgiluyeh County, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shutavar, village and Kohgiluyeh.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shutavar, village and Kohgiluyeh providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shutavar”, the useful work is to connect “village in Kohgiluyeh County, Iran” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5831303. Authority coordinates are 31.196, 50.384. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shutavar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shutavar primary sources, Shutavar archive and Shutavar 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.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shutavar”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Shutavar” 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.