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Pielești

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 revisionSep 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ12725036 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pielești is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania with a population of 3,609 people in 2011. It is composed of three villages: Câmpeni, Lânga, and Pielești.

Editorial summary

“Pielești” enters the record as commune in Dolj County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pielești, commune and Dolj 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—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pielești, commune and Dolj.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Sep 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q12725036. Authority coordinates are 44.351, 23.963. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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