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Stary Dębostrów

settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7602718 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stary Dębostrów [ˈstarɨ dɛmˈbɔstruf] (German: Alt Damuster) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Police, within Police County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border.

For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Stary Dębostrów” as settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 41-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 Stary, Dębostrów and settlement 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 settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7602718. Authority coordinates are 53.606, 14.521. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Stary Dębostrów” 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.