Cahul County was a county of

Bessarabia Bessarabia () 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 of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

. In the Middle Ages, its territory belonged to the

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, in

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, but after the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812, it became a county by itself.

History

Two smaller jurisdictions, specifically Codru County and Greceni County, were merged into Cahul County in 1818. Cahul County was part of the

Bessarabia Governorate The Bessarabia Governorate was a province (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Kishinev (Chișinău). It consisted of an area of and a population of 1,935,412 inhabitants. The Bessarabia Governorate bordered t ...

of the

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(1812–1856), of the

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(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 The union of Bessarabia with Romania was proclaimed on by Sfatul Țării, the legislative body of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. This state had the same borders of the region of Bessarabia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire following t ...

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

, 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.

References

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

History

See also

References