Ținutul Olt

Ținutul Olt Ținutul Jiu
Land (Ținut)
Coat of arms
Country	Romania
Former counties included	Dolj County, Gorj County, Mehedinți County, Olt County, Romanați County, Vâlcea County
Historic region	Wallachia (Oltenia)
Capital city (Reședință de ținut)	Craiova
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 Olt (draft version: Ținutul Jiu) 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] Roughly corresponding to the historical region of Oltenia and named after the Olt River and the Jiu River, it had its capital in the city of Craiova. Ținutul Olt ceased to exist following the territorial losses of Romania to the Axis powers and the king's abdication in 1940.[2]

Coat of arms

The coat of arms consists of six bars, three of gules and three of or, representing the former seven counties (județe) of Greater Romania (71 in total) which it had included. Over the bars there is an or lion rampant langued and armed sable, facing dexter (the symbol of Oltenia).[3]

Counties incorporated

After the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform, out of the older 71 counties, Ținutul Olt incorporated 6 of them:[4]

• Dolj County
• Gorj County
• Mehedinți County
• Olt County
• Romanați County
• Vâlcea County

See also

• Historical administrative divisions of Romania
• Sud-Vest (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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