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Lunca, Teleorman

commune in Teleorman County, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ12724911 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lunca (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈlunka]) is a commune in Teleorman County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Lunca and Prundu. It included two other villages until 2004, when they were split off to form Saelele Commune.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lunca, Teleorman and commune is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “commune in Teleorman 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

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 Apr 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12724911. Authority coordinates are 43.874, 24.788. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Lunca, Teleorman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lunca, Teleorman primary sources, Lunca, Teleorman archive and Lunca 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 “Lunca, Teleorman”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lunca, Teleorman” 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.