Chilia County (Romanian: Județul Chilia or Județul Chilia Nouă) was a county (județ) of Romania part of the Bessarabia Governorate.[1] Having lost Bessarabia in 1940 following an ultimatum by the Soviet Union (USSR),[2] Romania recovered the region in 1941 following the Axis invasion of the USSR during World War II.[3] Chilia County was the only Romanian county in Bessarabia that had not been created earlier in the administrative reform of 1930.[4]
Chilia County was divided into three plăși ("districts"), Plasa Chilia (capital Chilia or Chilia Nouă, now Kiliia; composed of 17 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, composed of 16 communes with a total of 25 villages).[5]
In 1944, Romania abandoned the Axis and joined the Allies, having to agree to giving up Bessarabia again.[6][7]
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Citations edit
- ^ Stănică 2007, p. 111.
- ^ Hitchins 2014, p. 199.
- ^ Hitchins 2014, p. 208.
- ^ WJC: Romania Section 1945, p. 36.
- ^ Platon 1999, p. 471.
- ^ Hitchins 2014, pp. 212–213.
- ^ Hitchins 2014, p. 215.
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- Hitchins, Keith (2014). A concise history of Romania. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521872386.
- Platon, Mihail (1999). Istoria administrației publice din Moldova (in Romanian). Academia de Administrare Publică pe lîngă Guvernul Republicii Moldova.
- Stănică, Viorel (2007). "Administrarea teritoriului României în timpul celui de-al doilea Război Mondial". Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (in Romanian). 9 (19): 107–116.
- Jewish population in figures: statistical memento. Populația evreească în cifre: memento statistic (in English and Romanian). Vol. 1. World Jewish Congress: Romania Section. 1945.