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Dămuc

commune in Neamț 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 revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5066677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dămuc (Hungarian: Damuk) is a commune in Neamț County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Dămuc, Huisurez (Hosszúrez), and Trei Fântâni (Háromkút). Dămuc is one of three communes in Neamț County (most of which is in Western Moldavia) that are part of the historic region of Transylvania.

Editorial summary

“Dămuc” enters the record as commune in Neamț County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dămuc, commune and Neamț 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 48-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 Dămuc, commune and Neamț.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Dămuc” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dămuc, commune and Neamț 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 Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5066677. Authority coordinates are 46.737, 25.915. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Dămuc”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dămuc primary sources, Dămuc archive and Dămuc 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 “Dămuc”?
  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 “Dămuc” 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.