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Chilia County
Chilia County ( ro, Județul Chilia or ) was a county (județ) of Kingdom of Romania, Romania part of the Bessarabia Governorate (Romania), Bessarabia Governorate. Having lost Bessarabia in 1940 following an ultimatum by the Soviet Union (USSR), Romania recovered the region in 1941 following the Operation Barbarossa, Axis invasion of the USSR during World War II. Chilia County was the only Romanian county in Bessarabia that had not been created earlier in the administrative reform of 1930. Chilia County was divided into three ''Plasă, plăși'' ("districts"), Plasa Chilia (Capital city, capital Chilia or Chilia Nouă, now Kiliia; composed of 17 Communes of Romania, communes with a total of 26 villages), Plasa Tarutino (capital Tarutino or Ancecrac, now Tarutyne; composed of 12 communes with a total of 20 villages) and Plasa Tătărești (capital Tătărești, Cahul, Tătărești, composed of 16 communes with a total of 25 villages). In 1944, Romania abandoned the Axis powers, Axi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Județ
A ''județ'' (, plural ) is an administrative division in Romania, and was also used from 1940 to 1947 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1998 to 2003 in Moldova. ''Județ'' translates into English as "jurisdiction", but is commonly rendered as county (the preferred term for that being ''comitat'' in Romanian). There are 41 ''județe'' in Romania, divided into municipii (municipalities), ''orașe'' (cities) and ''comune'' (communes). Each ''județ'' has a county seat (''reședință de județ'') which serves as its administrative capital; this designation usually belongs to the largest and most developed city in the respective county. The central government is represented by one prefect in every ''județ''. Bucharest, the capital, is its own ''județ''. It also acts as the county seat of Ilfov. Etymology In the Romanian Principalities, the ''județ'' was an office with administrative and judicial functions, corresponding to both judge and mayor. The word is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |