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Fierbinți-Târg

town in Ialomița County, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ275645 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fierbinți-Târg is a town in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. The town administers three villages: Fierbinții de Jos, Fierbinții de Sus, and Grecii de Jos.

The town is located in the western part of the county, bordering on Ilfov County. It is 27.6 km (17.1 mi) from Urziceni and 44.8 km (27.8 mi) from Bucharest.

The Fierbinți-Târg train station serves the CFR Main Line 700, which connects Bucharest to Brăila, Galați and the border with Moldova at Giurgiulești.

Las Fierbinți, one of Romania's best known television series, is filmed in the town.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Fierbinți-Târg” as town in Ialomița County, Romania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fierbinți-Târg, town and Ialomița.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 91-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1620. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fierbinți-Târg, town and Ialomița providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Fierbinți-Târg”, the useful work is to connect “town in Ialomița County, Romania” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q275645. Authority coordinates are 44.683, 26.383. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fierbinți-Târg”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fierbinți-Târg primary sources, Fierbinți-Târg archive and Fierbinți-Târg 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fierbinți-Târg” 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.