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Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)

village in Rychnov nad Kněžnou District of Hradec Králové region

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1529939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Val (German: Wall) is a municipality and village in Rychnov nad Kněžnou District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Val consists of two municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):

Val (220)

Provoz (80)

Geography

Val is located about 26 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Hradec Králové. It lies mostly in the Orlické Foothills, only a small part of the municipal territory in the west lies in the Orlice Table. The highest point is the hill Rosošky at 429 m (1,407 ft) above sea level.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)” is village in Rychnov nad Kněžnou District of Hradec Králové region. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rychnov, Kněžnou and District, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rychnov, Kněžnou and District is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Rychnov nad Kněžnou District of Hradec Králové region” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1529939. Authority coordinates are 50.311, 16.181. 2 of 2 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 “Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District) primary sources, Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District) archive and Rychnov 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 “Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Val (Rychnov nad Kněžnou District)” 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.