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Valea Ierii

commune in Cluj 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 authorityQ12725247 ↗
Source-derived summary

Valea Ierii (Hungarian: Járavize) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cerc (Kisfeneshavas), Plopi (Plop), and Valea Ierii.

Demographics

According to the census from 2011 there were 888 people living in this commune; of this population, nearly all were ethnic Romanians. At the 2021 census, Valea Ierii had a population of 871; of those, 93.92% were Romanians and 1.03% Hungarians.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Valea Ierii” as commune in Cluj County, Romania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Valea, Ierii and commune can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as commune in Cluj County, Romania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Q12725247. Authority coordinates are 46.531, 23.227. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Valea Ierii”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Valea Ierii primary sources, Valea Ierii archive and Valea 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 “Valea Ierii”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Valea Ierii” 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.