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Zappalà

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2023
Entity authorityQ56541418 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zappalà or Zappala is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Frank J. Zappala (1898–1988), American politician and lawyer

Gregorio Zappalà (1833–1908), Italian sculptor

Stefano Zappalà (1941–2018), Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia

Stephen Zappala, American Democratic politician and attorney who is the District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Stephen Zappala Sr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zappalà” is family name. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zappalà, family and name, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1988, 1833, 1908—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zappalà, family and name is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “family name” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 24, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q56541418. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1988, 1833 and 1908.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Zappalà” 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.