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Wuyang County

county in Luohe, Henan, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1199018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wuyang County (simplified Chinese: 舞阳县; traditional Chinese: 舞陽縣; pinyin: Wǔyáng Xiàn) is a county in the central part of Henan province, China. It is both the westernmost and southernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Luohe.

Administrative divisions

As of 2012, this county is divided to 7 towns and 7 townships.

Editorial summary

“Wuyang County” enters the record as county in Luohe, Henan, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wuyang, County and county can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wuyang, County and county.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1199018. Authority coordinates are 33.438, 113.601. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

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

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wuyang County”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Wuyang County” 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.