Timiș-Torontal County

Județul Timiș-Torontal

County (Județ)

Coat of arms

Country

Historic region

Capital city (Reședință de județ)

Established

1925

Ceased to exist

Area

• Land

7,600 km² (2,900 sq mi)

Population (1930)

• Total

500,416

• Summer (DST)

Timiș-Torontal was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania. Its capital was Timișoara.

Geography

Timiș-Torontal County covered 7,600 km² and was located in central part of Greater Romania, in the Banat. Currently, the territory that comprised Timiș-Torontal County is now mostly part of the Timiș County, with some communes in the Arad County. In the interwar period, the county neighbored Caraș County to the southeast, Severin County to the east, Arad County to the north, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the west and Hungary to the northwest.

Administratively, Timiș-Torontal County was divided into eight districts (plăși):

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Interwar Timiș-Torontal County.

Historical counties of Romania

Alba Arad Argeș Bacău Baia Bălți Bihor Botoșani Brașov Brăila Buzău Cahul Caliacra Câmpulung Caraș Cernăuți Cetatea Albă Ciuc Cluj Constanța Covurlui Dâmbovița Dolj Dorohoi Durostor Făgăraș Fălciu Gorj Hotin Hunedoara Ialomița Iași Ilfov Ismail Lăpușna Maramureș Mehedinți Mureș Muscel Năsăud Neamț Odorhei Olt Orhei Prahova Putna Rădăuți Râmnicu Sărat Roman Romanați Satu Mare Sălaj Severin Sibiu Someș Soroca Storojineț Suceava Târnava-Mare Târnava-Mică Tecuci Teleorman Tighina Timiș-Torontal Trei Scaune Tulcea Turda Tutova Vaslui Vâlcea Vlașca

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/26/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.