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Yar Kandi

village in Iran

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 revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5836711 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yar Kandi (Persian: ياركندي) is a village in Ijrud-e Bala Rural District of the Central District in Ijrud County, Zanjan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 35 in seven households. The following census in 2011 counted 67 people in 22 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 18 people in six households.

Editorial summary

“Yar Kandi” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kandi, village and Iran can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kandi, village and Iran.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Yar Kandi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kandi, village and Iran provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5836711. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Yar Kandi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Yar Kandi primary sources, Yar Kandi archive and Kandi 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 “Yar Kandi”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Yar Kandi” 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.