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Wałkno

settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7976988 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wałkno [ˈvau̯knɔ] (German: Falkenau) is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Maszewo, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately 7 km (4 mi) east of Maszewo, 25 km (16 mi) east of Goleniów, and 40 km (25 mi) east of the regional capital Szczecin.

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

The settlement has a population of 110.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wałkno” as settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 68-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 Wałkno, settlement and West can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as settlement in West Pomeranian, Poland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7976988. Authority coordinates are 53.489, 15.165. 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 “Wałkno” 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.