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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 into "judeţe" was in the each "judeţ" was divided into a number of "plăşi" (singular "plasă"), with each administered by a "pretor" (from the Latin "praetor"), named by the "prefect". In . Due to World War II , the Second Vienna Award , the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the loss of territory that Romania suffered, this style of administration did not last long, the "judeţe" being reintroduced, until the rise of communism, in 1948 . divided in "ţinuturi" ("lands") in 1938]] The Communist party changed it to the Russian model (in Raion s), but it 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, but instead a dependency of Bucharest (''"Sectorul Agricol Ilfov"''). HISTORICAL COUNTIES Merged or renamed Originally (1927-1938) there were 71 judeţe
Lost during WWII To Bulgaria
To Ukraine
To Moldova In Transnistria occupied during WWII Nowadays, they are dividied between the Republic Of Moldova (in Transnistria ) and Ukraine .
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