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Wączos

settlement in Pomeranian, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ8041040 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wączos [ˈvɔnt͡ʂɔs] is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Chojnice, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 32-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Wączos, settlement and Pomeranian can be independently traced.
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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 Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8041040. Authority coordinates are 53.838, 17.457. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wączos” 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.