Severin County

Județul Severin

County (Județ)

Coat of arms

Country

Historic region

Capital city (Reședință de județ)

Established

1925

Ceased to exist

Administrative and Constitutional Reform in 1938

Area

• Land

6,422 km² (2,480 sq mi)

Population (1930)

• Total

240,715

• Summer (DST)

Severin was a county (Romanian: județ) in the Kingdom of Romania. Its capital was Lugoj.

Geography

Severin County covered 6,422 km² and was located in central part of Greater Romania, in the Banat. Currently, the territory that comprised Severin County is divided between Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Mehedinți counties. In the interwar period, the county neighbored Caraș and Timiș-Torontal counties to the west, Arad County to the north, Hunedoara County to the east, Mehedinți County to the southeast, and Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the south.

Administratively, Severin County was divided into eight districts (plăși):

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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

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