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Tavares (Chãs, Várzea e Travanca)

former civil parish in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ74427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tavares (Chãs, Várzea e Travanca) is a civil parish in the municipality of Mangualde, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Chãs de Tavares, Várzea de Tavares and Travanca de Tavares. The population in 2011 was 1,468, in an area of 35.02 km2.

Editorial summary

“Tavares (Chãs, Várzea e Travanca)” enters the record as former civil parish in Portugal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tavares, Chãs and Várzea can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tavares, Chãs and Várzea.
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Why this record matters

“Tavares (Chãs, Várzea e Travanca)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tavares, Chãs and Várzea provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q74427. Authority coordinates are 40.611, -7.593. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2011.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Tavares (Chãs, Várzea e Travanca)” 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.