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Vespolate

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ22650 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vespolate is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) northeast of Turin and about 12 kilometres (7 mi) southeast of Novara. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,054 and an area of 17.8 square kilometres (6.9 mi2).

Vespolate borders the following municipalities: Borgolavezzaro, Confienza, Granozzo con Monticello, Nibbiola, Robbio, Terdobbiate, and Tornaco.

Editorial summary

“Vespolate” enters the record as italian comune. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vespolate, Italian and comune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vespolate, Italian and comune.
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Why this record matters

“Vespolate” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vespolate, Italian and comune provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22650. Authority coordinates are 45.350, 8.667. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

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How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vespolate”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vespolate primary sources, Vespolate archive and Vespolate 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.

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  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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This entry incorporates text from “Vespolate” 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.