Cahul County was a county of

Bessarabia Bessarabia (; Gagauz: ''Besarabiya''; Romanian: ''Basarabia''; Ukrainian: ''Бессара́бія'') is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds o ...

. In the Middle Ages, its territory belonged to the Fălciu County, but after the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812 it became a county by itself.

History

Two smaller, Codru County and Greceni County were merged into it in 1818. Cahul County was part of the Bessarabia Governorate of the

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(1812–1856), of the

Principality of Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Central ...

(1856–1859), then of the

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(1859–1878). In 1878, it was again annexed by the Russians, who merged it with the Ismail County. After the Union of Bessarabia with Romania in 1918, the county became a first-order administrative division of the

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as Cahul County of Romania. The Romanian county was abolished in the 1938 ''Administrative and Constitutional Reform''. In 1940, the area was occupied by the Soviet Union. It was briefly reconstituted as a Romanian county during the 1941 to 1944 Romanian reintegration of Bessarabia as the Bessarabia Governorate, after

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, but was returned to the Soviet Union after the Romanian armistice was signed.

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. Foreign relations of the United States, 1946
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, the

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established a Moldovan county of the same name in 1999, but disestablished it in 2003.

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1812 establishments in the Russian Empire States and territories established in 1812 Counties of Bessarabia {{Cahul-geo-stub

History

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