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Bâlvănești

commune in Mehedinți County, Romania

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 revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ16426906 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bâlvănești is a commune located in Mehedinți County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Bâlvănești, Băsești (Bâlvăneștii de Jos from 1968 to 2025), Călineștii de Jos, Călineștii de Sus and Pârlagele. It is situated in the historical region of Oltenia.

Editorial summary

“Bâlvănești” enters the record as commune in Mehedinți County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bâlvănești, commune and Mehedinți 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bâlvănești, commune and Mehedinți.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bâlvănești” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bâlvănești, commune and Mehedinți 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 Feb 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16426906. Authority coordinates are 44.785, 22.673. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968 and 2025.

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 “Bâlvănești”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bâlvănești primary sources, Bâlvănești archive and Bâlvănești 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 “Bâlvănești”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bâlvănești” 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.