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Oy-Tal, Osh

village in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan

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 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ3783220 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oy-Tal (Kyrgyz: Ой-Тал) is a village in Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of the Kara-Kulja District. Its population was 2,076 in 2021. It is located to the east of the Alai Mountains and towards the west of the Tian Shan mountain range.

Nearby villages include Köndük (5 km), Terek (11 km) and Kara-Tash.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Oy-Tal, Osh” as village in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Oy-Tal, village and Province can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Osh Province, Kyrgyzstan. 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 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3783220. Authority coordinates are 40.421, 74.112. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Oy-Tal, Osh”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Oy-Tal, Osh primary sources, Oy-Tal, Osh archive and Oy-Tal 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 “Oy-Tal, Osh”?
  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 “Oy-Tal, Osh” 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.