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Dor Mărunt

commune in Călărași 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 revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2403585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dor Mărunt is a commune in Călărași County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Dâlga, Dâlga-Gară, Dor Mărunt, Înfrățirea, Ogoru, and Pelinu.

At the 2011 census, the population of Dor Mărunt was 6,349. At the 2021 census, the population had increased to 6,469.

Editorial summary

“Dor Mărunt” enters the record as commune in Călărași County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mărunt, commune and Călărași can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mărunt, commune and Călărași.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Dor Mărunt” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mărunt, commune and Călărași provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2403585. Authority coordinates are 44.450, 26.917. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.

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 “Dor Mărunt”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dor Mărunt primary sources, Dor Mărunt archive and Mărunt 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 “Dor Mărunt”?
  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 “Dor Mărunt” 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.