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Sofular, İvrindi

mahalle (administrative quarter) in İvrindi, Balıkesir, northwestern Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6576037 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sofular is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İvrindi, Balıkesir Province in Turkey. Its population is 381 (2022).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sofular, İvrindi” is mahalle (administrative quarter) in İvrindi, Balıkesir, northwestern Turkey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sofular, İvrindi and mahalle, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sofular, İvrindi and mahalle is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “mahalle (administrative quarter) in İvrindi, Balıkesir, northwestern Turkey” 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

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 Feb 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6576037. Authority coordinates are 39.572, 27.624. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Sofular, İvrindi” 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.