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Shuangta District

district of Liaoning Province, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2023
Entity authorityQ1333223 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shuangta District (simplified Chinese: 双塔区; traditional Chinese: 雙塔區; pinyin: Shuāngtǎ Qū; lit. 'Double Towers') is a district of Chaoyang City, Liaoning, China.

Administrative divisions

There are 9 subdistricts, 3 towns and 1 township in the district.

Editorial summary

“Shuangta District” enters the record as district of Liaoning Province, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shuangta, District and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shuangta, District and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Shuangta District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shuangta, District and district provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q1333223. Authority coordinates are 41.563, 120.447. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Shuangta District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shuangta District primary sources, Shuangta District archive and Shuangta 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 “Shuangta District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shuangta District” 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.