# Sources and claim checks

| Claim ID | Published claim | Primary source and edition | Inputs and formula | Expected display | Limit or caveat |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| C01 | 1,426 names shared by ≥2 villages; 4,764 villages share their name; 9,620 distinct names from 12,958 villages | SIRUTA May-2021 (data.gov.ro, CC BY 4.0), niv 3 tip 11/19/22/23, fictiv=0 | group by upper+diacritic-folded denloc; count groups with size ≥2 | 1.426 / 4.764 / 9.620 / 12.958 | Villages only; urban components excluded (same definition as siblings) |
| C02 | Satu Nou 41 villages in 23 counties; Poiana 36; Lunca 31 in 19; Valea Mare 23 in 15 | Same | group sizes + distinct jud per group, sorted desc | 41 / 36 / 31 / 23 | Populations from T1.22; 80 dup-group villages without a published figure (26 `*` confidential, 54 no row) |
| C03 | Mircea Vodă: 4 villages in 4 counties | Same + T1.22 pops | group lookup: Brăila/Constanța/Dâmbovița/Tulcea | 4 în 4 județe | Two are commune seats of same-named communes |
| C04 | 56 shared names also name a town/city (Slobozia 21 + municipiu — top of the cross-type order, then Broșteni 18, Costești 12; Satu Mare 5 + municipiu; Broșteni 18 + oraș) | Same + SIRUTA niv-2 tip 1/2/4/5/9 | normalized core-name overlap of dup groups with urban UATs, sorted desc (order asserted in build) | 56 | Cross-type overlap stated separately, never merged into C01; public prose names examples without implying rank order |
| C05 | Normalization neutral: folded ≡ unfolded groupings | Same | assert identical group sets both ways in build | stated in method | Case/diacritics folded for matching only |
| C06 | No two same-named villages share one UAT; county+commune settles every name | Same | assert distinct sirsup within each group | stated in explainer | Follows from grouping; asserted in build |
| C07 | Size bands (cumulative, as shown): 1,426 names ×2+, 600 ×3+, 224 ×5+, 51 ×10+ | Same | counts over group sizes | 1.426 / 600 / 224 / 51 | Of the 1,426, exactly 826 are pairs (size == 2) |

Source URLs (verified-direct, accessed 2026-09-17):
- T1.22: https://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tabel-1.22.xlsx
- SIRUTA May-2021: https://data.gov.ro/dataset/26e9db4c-2afe-4d86-8a8f-caa879cae7ea (CC BY 4.0, licence metadata checked via CKAN API by the sibling project; same files copied — provenance: cel-mai-mare-sat-din-romania/data/, 2026-09-17)
- TIP codebook: INS "Nomenclator tip unitate administrativ-teritorială" (SIRUTA docs, data.gov.ro)

Display names: majority T1.22 spelling per group (they carry diacritics).
7 rows where T1.22 differs from SIRUTA post-normalization keep SIRUTA-code
identity: Râșca/Rasca, Slăatioarele/Slătioarele, Înfrățirea/Înfratirea (in
shared-name groups, shown under the group name) plus Ântregalde/Intregalde,
Șorogani/Sorogari, Fânațele Mădărășilui/Fanatele Madarasului,
DiochețiRediu/Diocheti-Rediu (unique-name villages, shown with the SIRUTA
spelling). Brădeanca (2 villages, both unpublished) also falls back to the
SIRUTA spelling. Name spellings use ș/ț with comma below throughout.