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Zu-ye Olya

village in Samalqan County, 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 revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ8074874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zu-ye Olya (Persian: زوعليا) is a village in Howmeh Rural District of the Central District in Samalqan County, North Khorasan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 673 in 146 households. The following census in 2011 counted 575 people in 137 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 546 people in 157 households.

Editorial summary

“Zu-ye Olya” enters the record as village in Samalqan County, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zu-ye, Olya and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. 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 Zu-ye, Olya and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Zu-ye Olya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zu-ye, Olya and village 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 Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8074874. Authority coordinates are 37.500, 56.938. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. 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 “Zu-ye Olya”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zu-ye Olya primary sources, Zu-ye Olya archive and Zu-ye 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 “Zu-ye Olya”?
  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 “Zu-ye Olya” 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.