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Bucovăț, Dolj

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 revisionMay 16, 2020
Entity authorityQ3734610 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bucovăț is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania with a population of 4,224 people. It is composed of seven villages: Bucovăț, Cârligei, Italieni, Leamna de Jos, Leamna de Sus, Palilula and Sărbătoarea.

Italieni village, founded by Italian settlers, was destroyed during the systematization process of the 1980s.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bucovăț, Dolj” is commune in Dolj County, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bucovăț, Dolj and commune, not as a finished interpretation.

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. For this dossier, Bucovăț, Dolj and commune is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “commune in Dolj County, Romania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 May 16, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q3734610. Authority coordinates are 44.281, 23.707. 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 “Bucovăț, Dolj”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bucovăț, Dolj primary sources, Bucovăț, Dolj archive and Bucovăț 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 “Bucovăț, Dolj”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bucovăț, Dolj” 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.