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Târlișua

commune in Bistrița-Năsăud 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 revisionNov 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ5065474
Source-derived summary

Târlișua (Hungarian: Felsőilosva) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of ten villages: Agrieș (Felsőpusztaegres), Agrieșel (Alsóegres), Borleasa (Lonkafalva), Cireași, Lunca Sătească, Molișet (Molisetitanya), Oarzina (Úrivölgy), Răcăteșu (Rakatyestanya), Șendroaia (Sándorvölgy), and Târlișua.

The commune is located in the northwestern part of the county, on the border with Maramureș County. It lies on the banks of the river Ilișua and its affluent, Valea Lungă.

Târlișua is situated at a distance of 41 km (25 mi) from the town of Năsăud and 69 km (43 mi) from the county seat, Bistrița.

Editorial summary

“Târlișua” enters the record as commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Târlișua, commune and Bistrița-Năsăud can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 93-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 Târlișua, commune and Bistrița-Năsăud.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Târlișua” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Târlișua, commune and Bistrița-Năsăud 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 Nov 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5065474. Authority coordinates are 47.438, 24.152. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Târlișua”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Târlișua primary sources, Târlișua archive and Târlișua 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 “Târlișua”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from Târlișua” 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.