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Dobrin, Sălaj

commune in Sălaj 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 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ16427322 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dobrin (Hungarian: Debren) is a commune located in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Deleni (Nagymonújfalu), Doba (Nagydoba), Dobrin, Naimon (Nagymon), Sâncraiu Silvaniei (Szilágyszentkirály), and Verveghiu (Vérvölgy).

Doba Mică (Kisdoba) is a hamlet in Doba village and a former fief of the Dobai family. It features a 17th-century wooden church.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 54-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 Dobrin, Sălaj and commune.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Dobrin, Sălaj” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dobrin, Sălaj and commune 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 Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16427322. Authority coordinates are 47.302, 23.117. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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.

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