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Zamarra

municipality of Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ1766933 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zamarra is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 100 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2016 has a population of 105 people. The municipality covers an area of 48 km².

The village lies 778 metres above sea level and the postal code is 37591.

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The public source identifies “Zamarra” as municipality of Spain. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zamarra, municipality and Spain.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zamarra, municipality and Spain providing the first useful test.
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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 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1766933. Authority coordinates are 40.518, -6.454. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zamarra” 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.