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Poienești

commune in Vaslui 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 revisionJun 16, 2021
Entity authorityQ12725047 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poienești is a commune in Vaslui County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Dealu Secării, Florești, Frasinu, Poienești, Fundu Văii, Oprișița and Poienești-Deal. Although legally part of Poienești, Dealu Secării and Florești villages are administered by Alexandru Vlahuță Commune.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 42-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 Poienești, commune and Vaslui.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Poienești” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Poienești, commune and Vaslui 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 Jun 16, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q12725047. Authority coordinates are 46.586, 27.548. None of the 1 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 source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Poienești”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Poienești primary sources, Poienești archive and Poienești 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 “Poienești”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Poienești” 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.