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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


  • Cernăuţi

  • Cetatea Albă

  • part of Hotin

  • Ismail

  • Strojineţ

  • To Moldova

  • Bălţi

  • Cahul

  • Orhei

  • part of Hotin

  • Lăpuşna

  • Soroca

  • Tighina



In Transnistria occupied during WWII

Nowadays, they are dividied between Republic Of Moldova (in Transnistria ) and Ukraine .

  • Ananiev

  • Balta

  • Berezovca

  • Dubăsari

  • Golta

  • Jugastru

  • Movilău

  • Oceacov

  • Odessa

  • Ovidiopol

  • Râbniţa

  • Tiraspol

  • Tulcin



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