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Samartino

parish (parroquia) in Siero, Asturias, Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5657800 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samartino (Spanish: Vega de Poja) is a parish (administrative division) in Siero, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The parish is located to the Northeast of the administrative capital of the municipality, Pola de Siero, between Highway AS-331 and Highway AS-248.

According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), In 2023, Samartino had a population of 1023.

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“Samartino” enters the record as parish (parroquia) in Siero, Asturias, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Samartino, parish and parroquia 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—2023, 1023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Samartino, parish and parroquia.
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“Samartino” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Samartino, parish and parroquia 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 Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5657800. Authority coordinates are 43.400, -5.636. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 1023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samartino” 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.