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Ideciu de Jos

commune in Mureș 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 revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5059154 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ideciu de Jos (Hungarian: Alsóidecs, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɒlʃoːidɛtʃ]) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Deleni (Oroszidecs), Ideciu de Jos, and Ideciu de Sus (Felsőidecs). The route of the Via Transilvanica long-distance trail passes through the villages of Ideciu de Sus and Deleni.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 1,998, of which 86.29% were Romanians and 4.4% Hungarians.

Editorial summary

“Ideciu de Jos” enters the record as commune in Mureș County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ideciu, commune and Mureș 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—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ideciu, commune and Mureș.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ideciu de Jos” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ideciu, commune and Mureș provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5059154. Authority coordinates are 46.824, 24.806. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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