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Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship

village in Masovian, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ8082975 ↗
Source-derived summary

Żabiczyn [ʐaˈbit͡ʂɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nasielsk, within Nowy Dwór County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

Editorial summary

“Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship” enters the record as village in Masovian, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Żabiczyn, Masovian and Voivodeship 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 21-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 Żabiczyn, Masovian and Voivodeship.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Żabiczyn, Masovian and Voivodeship provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8082975. Authority coordinates are 52.550, 20.850. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship primary sources, Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship archive and Żabiczyn 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 “Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Żabiczyn, Masovian Voivodeship” 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.