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Sirwah district

District of Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4117559 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sirwah District (Arabic: مُدِيْرِيَّة صِرواح) is a district of the Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 19,939 inhabitants.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sirwah district” is district of Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sirwah, district and District, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sirwah, district and District is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “district of Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4117559. Authority coordinates are 15.417, 45.333. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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 “Sirwah district”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sirwah district primary sources, Sirwah district archive and Sirwah 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 “Sirwah district”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sirwah 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.