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Sasca Montană

commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ12725122 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sasca Montană (Hungarian: Szászkabánya) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 1887 people. It is composed of five villages: Bogodinț (Bogorfalva), Potoc (Potok), Sasca Montană, Sasca Română (Szászka) and Slatina-Nera (Néraszlatina).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sasca Montană” as commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sasca, Montană and commune.

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—1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sasca, Montană and commune providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sasca Montană”, the useful work is to connect “commune in Caraș-Severin County, Romania” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12725122. VIAF identifies the subject as 139568647. Authority coordinates are 44.897, 21.695. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Sasca Montană”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sasca Montană primary sources, Sasca Montană archive and Sasca 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 “Sasca Montană”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sasca Montană” 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.