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Zəyəm, Zaqatala

municipality in Zaqatala, Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5070509 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zəyəm (also, Zagam and Zagyam) is a village and municipality in the Zaqatala Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 767.

Editorial summary

“Zəyəm, Zaqatala” enters the record as municipality in Zaqatala, Azerbaijan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zəyəm, Zaqatala and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 22-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zəyəm, Zaqatala and municipality.
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“Zəyəm, Zaqatala” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zəyəm, Zaqatala and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5070509. Authority coordinates are 41.555, 46.712. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zəyəm, Zaqatala” 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.