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Daghdaghan

village in East Azerbaijan, 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 revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5678011
Source-derived summary

Daghdaghan (Persian: دغدغان, also Romanized as Daghdaghān; also known as Tokhtugan, Tūkhī Tūqān, and Tykhtugan) is a village in Mavazekhan-e Shomali Rural District, Khvajeh District, Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 162, in 43 families.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Daghdaghan” as village in East Azerbaijan, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Daghdaghan, village and East.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Daghdaghan, village and East providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Daghdaghan”, the useful work is to connect “village in East Azerbaijan, Iran” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5678011. Authority coordinates are 38.311, 46.639. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Daghdaghan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Daghdaghan primary sources, Daghdaghan archive and Daghdaghan 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 “Daghdaghan”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Daghdaghan” 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.