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Vilar de Lomba e São Jomil

former civil parish in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ927555 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vilar de Lomba e São Jomil is a civil parish in the municipality of Vinhais, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Vilar de Lomba and São Jomil. The population in 2011 was 237, in an area of 29.48 km².

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vilar de Lomba e São Jomil” is former civil parish in Portugal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vilar, Lomba and Jomil, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Vilar, Lomba and Jomil is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “former civil parish in Portugal” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q927555. Authority coordinates are 41.810, -7.184. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vilar de Lomba e São Jomil” 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.