RoHGIS. Settlements in the Kingdom of Romania (1904-1913)

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).