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Tin-Essako Cercle

cercle in Kidal Region, Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2020
Entity authorityQ2064111 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tin-Essako Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kidal Region of Mali. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is at the village of Tin-Essako. In the 2009 census the cercle had a population of 7,976 people. The cercle is the least populated in Mali and has an extreme Saharian climate.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tin-Essako Cercle” is cercle in Kidal Region, Mali. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tin-Essako, Cercle and cercle, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-08-15. For this dossier, Tin-Essako, Cercle and cercle is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 27, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q2064111. Authority coordinates are 18.583, 3.083. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tin-Essako Cercle” 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.