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Surmaq

city in Fars Province, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4359867 ↗
Source-derived summary

Surmaq (Persian: سورمق) is a city in the Central District of Abadeh County, Fars province, Iran, serving as the administrative center for Surmaq Rural District.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 3,116 in 917 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,458 people in 1,083 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 3,050 people in 1,052 households.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Surmaq” as city in Fars Province, Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Surmaq, city and Fars can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as city in Fars Province, Iran. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4359867. Authority coordinates are 31.036, 52.840. 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

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 “Surmaq”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Surmaq primary sources, Surmaq archive and Surmaq 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 “Surmaq”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Surmaq” 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.