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Sutești

commune in Vâlcea 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 revisionMay 24, 2020
Entity authorityQ3915589 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sutești is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Sutești, Boroșești, Mazili and Verdea. The commune also included Mitrofani, Cetățeaua, Izvorașu and Racu villages until 2004, when they were split off to form Mitrofani Commune.

Editorial summary

“Sutești” enters the record as commune in Vâlcea County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sutești, commune and Vâlcea 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—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sutești, commune and Vâlcea.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q3915589. Authority coordinates are 44.675, 24.199. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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 “Sutești”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sutești primary sources, Sutești archive and Sutești 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 “Sutești”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sutești” 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.