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Craiova (/ k r ə ˈ j oʊ v ə /, also US: / k r aɪ ˈ oʊ v ə, k r ɑː ˈ j ɔː v ɑː, k r ɑː ˈ j oʊ v ɑː /, [4] [5] [6] Romanian: ⓘ) is the largest city in southwestern Romania, the seventh largest city in the country and the capital of Dolj County, situated near the east bank of the river Jiu in central Oltenia.
This article discusses the administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Romania between 1941 and 1944. As a result of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (28 June-4 July 1940), Second Vienna Award (30 August 1940) and the Treaty of Craiova (7 September 1940), territories that had previously been part of Romania were lost to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria respectively.
Dolj County (Romanian pronunciation: ⓘ; originally meant Dol(no)-Jiu, "lower Jiu", as opposed to Gorj (upper Jiu)) [citation needed] is a county of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova.
When modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia (parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by respectively the Habsburgs, 1775–1918, and the Russian Tsars, 1812–1917), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as model.
A total of 41 counties (Romanian: județe), along with the municipality of Bucharest, constitute the official administrative divisions of Romania.They represent the country's NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics – Level 3) statistical subdivisions within the European Union and each of them serves as the local level of government within its borders.
Territorial evolution of Romania, 1859-present (animated map). Divisions of Wallachia, 1601-1718 Divisions of Moldavia, 1601-1718 Divisions of Transylvania, 1606-1660. The earliest organization into județe of the Principalities of Wallachia, [3] respectively ținuturi of Moldavia, dates back at least to the early 15th century.
Craiova: 121.115 108.48 89,56% 12.635 – Initially intended to be built as a motorway. The first segment opened in 2022, with the Craiova–Albota segment (108. 46 km) currently operational. The section between Albota and the A1 Motorway is under construction. Horea, Cloșca and Crișan: Satu Mare: Oar: 10.9 0 – – 10.9 Tendered in 2024.
Craiova metropolitan area is a metropolitan area, founded on 11 February 2009, and formed by Craiova and other 23 other nearby communities. The population of this area is 356,544. [1] As defined by Eurostat, the Craiova functional urban area has a population of 325,499 residents (as of 2015). [2]