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Vârvoru de Jos

commune in Dolj 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 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ16426546 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vârvoru de Jos is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania with a population of 3,408 people. It is composed of eight villages: Bujor, Ciutura, Criva, Dobromira, Drăgoaia, Gabru, Vârvor and Vârvoru de Jos.

Editorial summary

“Vârvoru de Jos” enters the record as commune in Dolj County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vârvoru, commune and Dolj can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 34-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 Vârvoru, commune and Dolj.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Vârvoru de Jos” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vârvoru, commune and Dolj 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 Nov 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16426546. Authority coordinates are 44.227, 23.601. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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