Ținutul Dunărea de Jos

Ținutul Dunărea de Jos Ținutul Dunării
Land (Ținut)
Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Former counties included	Brăila County, Cahul County, Covurlui County, Fălciu County, Ismail County, Putna County, Râmnicu Sărat County, Tecuci County, Tulcea County, Tutova County
Historic region	Dobruja (parts of Northern Dobruja), Moldavia (parts of Bessarabia, Budjak)
Capital city (Reședință de ținut)	Galați
Established	14 August 1938
Ceased to exist	22 September 1940
Government
• Type	Rezident Regal
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Ținutul Dunărea de Jos (draft version: Ținutul Dunării) was one of the ten Romanian ținuturi ("lands") founded in 1938, after King Carol II initiated an institutional reform by modifying the 1923 Constitution and the law of territorial administration.[1] Named after the Danube River and extending over historical areas of Moldavia (into Moldavia-proper, as well as Budjak and Bessarabia), parts of Northern Dobruja (with the Danube Delta), and an area of Wallachia around Brăila. Its capital was the city of Galați. Ținutul Dunărea de Jos ceased to exist following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina and the king's abdication in 1940.[2]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms consists of ten bars, five of azure and five of murrey, representing the former ten counties (județe) of Greater Romania (71 in total) which it included. Over the bars there is an argent bend, of wavy shape, reminding of the Danube.[3]

Counties incorporated

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, of the older 71 counties, Ținutul Dunărea de Jos included 10:[4]

• Brăila County
• Cahul County
• Covurlui County
• Fălciu County
• Ismail County
• Putna County
• Râmnicu Sărat County
• Tecuci County
• Tulcea County
• Tutova County

See also

• Historical administrative divisions of Romania
• Sud-Est (development region)
• History of Romania

References

1. Published in „Monitorul Oficial”, Part 1, Nr. 187 from 14 August 1938
2. Decree-Law Nr. 3219 from 21 September 1940, published in „Monitorul Oficial”, Part 1, Nr. 221 from 22 September 1940, pp. 5530-5532
3. Royal Decree Nr. 4285 from 13 December 1938, published in „Monitorul Oficial”, Part I, Nr. 34 from 10 February 1939, p. 698
4. Administrative Law published in „Monitorul Oficial”, Part 1, Nr. 187 from 14 August 1938, p. 3778

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