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Cetățeni

commune in Argeș 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 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1884119 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cetățeni is a commune in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cetățeni, Lăicăi, and Valea Cetățuia.

The commune is situated at a distance of 91 km (57 mi) from Pitești and 25 km (16 mi) from Câmpulung, right next to Dâmbovița County. The neighboring communes are: Stoenești to the north, Pucheni to the east, Malu cu Flori to the south, Văleni to the west, and Mioarele to the northwest.

Cetățuia Monastery is located here.

Editorial summary

“Cetățeni” enters the record as commune in Argeș County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cetățeni, commune and Argeș 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 78-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 Cetățeni, commune and Argeș.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Cetățeni” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cetățeni, commune and Argeș 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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1884119. Authority coordinates are 45.187, 25.217. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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