DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15613857
title: RoHGIS. Settlements in the Kingdom of Romania (1904-1913)
title: RoHGIS. Așezările din Regatul României (1904-1913)

description: The Settlements in the Kingdom of Romania (1904-1913), as part of the RoHGIS project, represent a dataset that includes the urban and rural settlements existing during the period between the date of entry into force of the Law for the Organization of Rural Communes and the Administration of Sub-districts ("plăși") (May 1, 1904) and the date of entry into force of the Law for the Organization of New Dobrogea (April 1, 1913).

The general purpose of the RoHGIS initiative is to create a historical-geographical database of the territories inhabited by Romanians, along with a coherent and standardized system for administrative, social and landownership structures as working tools for other projects: scientific research, education, cartography or support for archives and libraries.

This database aims to inventory all permanent settlements of any type existing in the Kingdom of Romania between 1904 and 1913, regardless of their legal administrative status. Nevertheless, the lack of a general methodology for identifying and locating all hamlets, parts of villages, alternative names and many small or ephemeral settlements, as well as the impossibility of conducting field campaigns, have resulted in the core of the data being composed of settlements listed in the official annexes of administrative laws from the mentioned period. In addition, a significant number of villages, parts of villages and hamlets that existed before 1904 and continued to function after 1913, but were not legally recognized in this interval, have been included. As a result of this process, 10036 settlements have been recorded, which constitute the first published version of this dataset.

Data structure

The data format is comma separated values (CSV) with UTF-8 encoding.

The main table contains the following fields:




nume
name of the settlement (string, UTF-8)


nume_alt
alternative name of the settlement, as it appears in various official sources (string, UTF-8)


rd_a
RD (digital registry) code for the settlement, according to the RoHGIS standard encoding, string (6)


rd_c
RD (digital registry) code for the corresponding commune, according to the RoHGIS standard encoding, string (5)


categ
code for the settlement type (06 – urban; 07 – rural)


lat
latitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)


long
longitude in decimal degrees (WGS84)




 

Key for rd_c fieldThe first two digits represent the RD code of the district ("județ") to which the commune containing the settlement belongs:




01
RS – Rîmnicu Sărat


02
BR – Brăila


03
BZ – Buzău


04
PR – Prahova


05
IL – Ialomița


06
IF – Ilfov


07
DM – Dîmbovița


08
VȘ – Vlașca


09
TR – Teleorman


10
MȘ – Mușcel


11
AG – Argeș


12
OL – Olt


13
RM – Romanați


14
VL – Vîlcea


15
DJ – Dolj


16
GJ – Gorj


17
MH – Mehedinți


18
DR – Dorohoi


19
BT – Botoșani


20
SV – Suceava


21
IȘ – Iași


22
NȚ – Neamț


23
RN – Roman


24
VS – Vaslui


25
BC – Bacău


26
TV – Tutova


27
FL – Fălciu


28
PT – Putna


29
TC – Tecuci


30
CV – Covurlui


31
CT – Constanța


32
TL – Tulcea


00
without attribution for the settlements included after 1904




 

Note

Additional documentation can be found on the project's GitLab page (in Romanian).