VILLAGES IN ILFOV COUNTY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REGULATION AGE
VILLAGES IN ILFOV COUNTY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REGULATION AGE

Summary/Abstract: The adoption of the Organic Regulation of Romania triggered a period of great changes, of deep political, legal and administrative reorganization. The Regulation Age (1831-1858) is a special one in the history of the Romanian space, the one that marks its transition from "the periphery of the Ottoman Empire to the periphery of the West" (Bogdan Murgescu). The need to know, as well as possible, the state in which the country was at that beginning of the Regulation Age and the subsequent progress led to the collection of detailed data from all areas of life. General Pavel Kiseleff's desire to have the most correct, undistorted perspective on all matters related to the administration of the Romanian countries also contributed to this. The territorial-administrative organization of the counties underwent spectacular developments during the Regulation Age, a matter that has not been researched much in the case of the Ilfov County. The research we put forward has the intention of shedding light on the stage from which the reformation process started in the case of the Ilfov County and thus offer, for the future, the possibility of relevant measurement of the extent and results obtained. We therefore want to highlight the number of the Ilfov settlements at the beginning of the regulatory period and the difficulties this approach entails. Furthermore, we want to identify the reasons why the sources that we used, both published and unpublished, provide different figures regarding the number of villages contained by the Ilfov County around 1831.

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