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Drăgănești, Neamț

commune in Neamț 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 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ3040283 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drăgănești is a commune in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Drăgănești, Orțăști, Râșca, and Șoimărești. These were part of Brusturi-Drăgănești Commune until 2004, when they were split off and the remainder was renamed Brusturi.

Editorial summary

“Drăgănești, Neamț” enters the record as commune in Neamț County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drăgănești, Neamț and commune 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 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 Drăgănești, Neamț and commune.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Drăgănești, Neamț” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Drăgănești, Neamț and commune 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 Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3040283. Authority coordinates are 47.316, 26.402. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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