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Yahşiler, Kemah

village in Kemah, Erzincan, eastern Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ10836798 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yahşiler (Kurdish: Babo) is a village in the Kemah District of Erzincan Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Bezkar tribe and had a population 84 in 2022.

The hamlet of Balkaya (Sînîgî) is attached to the village. Balkaya is also populated by the Bezkar tribe.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Yahşiler, Kemah” as village in Kemah, Erzincan, eastern Turkey. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yahşiler, Kemah and village.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yahşiler, Kemah and village providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Yahşiler, Kemah”, the useful work is to connect “village in Kemah, Erzincan, eastern Turkey” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10836798. Authority coordinates are 39.531, 38.711. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Yahşiler, Kemah”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yahşiler, Kemah primary sources, Yahşiler, Kemah archive and Yahşiler 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 “Yahşiler, Kemah”?
  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 “Yahşiler, Kemah” 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.