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Level II and III.]] The Judeţ e (translated to English as "counties") are administrative units of Romania . LIST OF COUNTIES As of 2003, Romania is divided into 41 counties and one municipality, as follows: HISTORY The earliest organization in "judeţe" was in the 15th Century and each judeţ was ruled by a "jude", a person that had administrative and judicial functions. The modern administrative division in "judeţe" was created in the 19th Century using the French departments system as an example: for each judeţ exists a "prefect", who is the representative of the government to the county and the head of the local administration. The communist party changed it to the Russian model (in Raion s), but it was soon reverted to the current system in 1968 . In 1981 the former counties of Ilfov and Ialomiţa were re-organised into the present-day counties of Giurgiu, Călăraşi, Ialomiţa and Ilfov. Until 1995 Ilfov was not a proper county, instead it was a dependency of Bucharest. HISTORICAL COUNTIES Merged or renamed Originally (1927-1938) there where 71 judeţe
Lost during WWII To Bulgaria
To Ukraine
To Moldova
In Transnistria occupied during WWII Nowadays, they are dividied between Republic Of Moldova (in Transnistria ) and Ukraine .
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