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Ștefănești, Vâlcea

commune in Vâlcea County, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2020
Entity authorityQ3915320 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ștefănești is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Condoiești, Dobrușa, Șerbănești and Ștefănești.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ștefănești, Vâlcea” is commune in Vâlcea County, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ștefănești, Vâlcea and commune, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ștefănești, Vâlcea and commune is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “commune in Vâlcea County, Romania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 May 24, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q3915320. Authority coordinates are 44.606, 24.221. None of the 2 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 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 “Ștefănești, Vâlcea”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ștefănești, Vâlcea primary sources, Ștefănești, Vâlcea archive and Ștefănești 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 “Ștefănești, Vâlcea”?
  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 “Ștefănești, Vâlcea” 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.