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Tierra de Cantalapiedra

subcomarca in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ9087590 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tierra de Cantalapiedra is a comarca in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León. It contains six municipalities: Cantalapiedra, Cantalpino, Palaciosrubios, Poveda de las Cintas, Tarazona de Guareña and Villaflores.

Editorial summary

“Tierra de Cantalapiedra” enters the record as subcomarca in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tierra, Cantalapiedra and subcomarca can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tierra, Cantalapiedra and subcomarca.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tierra de Cantalapiedra” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tierra, Cantalapiedra and subcomarca provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9087590. Authority coordinates are 41.092, -5.233. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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

This entry incorporates text from “Tierra de Cantalapiedra” 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.