About
4,740 sourced events · 184 nations · 3,607 references
Terralore is an encyclopedia of nations: each nation’s history as a sourced chronicle, and its present as a dossier of figures that keep their provenance. The rule that governs everything here is small and absolute — only verified claims, each traceable to a reliable source. What cannot be sourced is not written; what is not observed renders as an absence, never as a zero.
Who makes this
Terralore is researched, written and maintained by Hamza Bentaieb, its founding editor. There is no larger staff behind the byline — and that is stated here plainly because the site’s trust argument was never “trust the author.” It is that every claim carries its source, every corpus state is sealed, and every change is recorded. The citation is the credential; the editor is who answers for it.
The method
Histories cite reference works and institutions — Encyclopaedia Britannica, UNESCO, national archives and museums, academic references — and every event names its sources beside it. Data dossiers are baked from the publishing institutions themselves: the World Bank, WHO, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, ITU, SIPRI, the UN IGME estimates and the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, each figure keeping its publisher, its observation year and its licence. Validators enforce what the prose promises: an event whose source id does not resolve, a figure whose source is missing, a fragment that does not match the rendered page — each fails the build, not the reader.
On disputes the site takes no side: contested territories are surfaced with the data that exists and its caveats, and the histories hold to the same neutral, primary-sourced treatment. Nothing is imputed; gaps are shown honestly.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to ledger@terralore.co with the page and the claim. A confirmed error is corrected in the corpus, and the correction is not silent: the change lands in the ledger as a recorded revision, and the corpus is re-sealed under a new version with the old one archived append-only. The full pipeline — authored files, validators, seals — is public in the repository, where every past manifest is committed.