Administrative map of Romania, 1950-1952

Administrative_map_of_Romania,_1952-1956

Bacău Region (Regiunea Bacău) was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative divisions of the

People's Republic of Romania The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian Peopl ...

, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation.

History

The capital of the region was

Bacău Bacău ( , , ; hu, Bákó; la, Bacovia) is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. At the 2016 national estimation it had a population of 196,883, making it the 12th largest city in Romania. The city is situated in the historical region of ...

, and its territory comprised an area similar to the nowadays

and Neamț counties. In 1956 the region included the Zeletin and Adjud

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

s from the dissolved Bârlad Region and the Roman Raion from Iași Region. In 1960 the Zeletin Raion was dissolved, most of the component communes passing to Adjud Raion, and in 1964 Buhuși Raion was dissolved, and all its communes were included into Bacău and Piatra Neamț raions.

Neighbors

Bacău Region had as neighbors: *1950–1952: East: Iași Region and Bârlad Region; South: Putna Region and Stalin Region; West: Mureș Region; North: Suceava Region. *1952–1956: East: Iași Region; South: Bârlad Region; West:

Magyar Autonomous Region The Magyar Autonomous Region (1952–1960) (Romanian: ''Regiunea Autonomă Maghiară'', Hungarian: ''Magyar Autonóm Tartomány'') and Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region (1960–1968) were autonomous regions in the Romanian People's Republic (later ...

; North: Suceava Region. *1956–1968: East: Iași Region; South: Galați Region; West: Brașov Region and

; North: Suceava Region.

Rayons

*1950–1952: Bacău, Moinești, Târgu Ocna, Buhuși, Piatra Neamț, Târgu Neamț. *1952–1956: Bacău, Moinești, Târgu Ocna, Buhuși, Piatra Neamț, Târgu Neamț, Ceahlău. *1956–1960: Bacău, Moinești, Târgu Ocna, Buhuși, Piatra Neamț, Târgu Neamț, Zeletin (centered on Podu Turcului), Adjud, Roman. *1960–1964: Bacău, Moinești, Târgu Ocna, Buhuși, Piatra Neamț, Târgu Neamț, Adjud, Roman. *1964–1968: Bacău, Moinești, Târgu Ocna, Piatra Neamț, Târgu Neamț, Adjud, Roman. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bacau Region Regions of the People's Republic of Romania