Chilia County
{{Short description|County in Romania from 1941 to 1944}}
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Chilia County ({{langx|ro|Județul Chilia}} or {{lang|ro|Județul Chilia Nouă}}) was a county (județ) of Romania part of the Bessarabia Governorate.{{sfn|Stănică|2007|p=111}} Having lost Bessarabia in 1940 following an ultimatum by the Soviet Union (USSR),{{sfn|Hitchins|2014|p=199}} Romania recovered the region in 1941 following the Axis invasion of the USSR during World War II.{{sfn|Hitchins|2014|p=208}} Chilia County was the only Romanian county in Bessarabia that had not been created earlier in the administrative reform of 1930.{{sfn|WJC: Romania Section|1945|p=36}}
Chilia County was divided into three plăși ("districts"), Plasa Chilia (capital Chilia or Chilia Nouă, now Kiliia; composed of 17 communes with a total of 26 villages), Plasa Tarutino (capital Tarutino or Ancecrac, now Bessarabske; composed of 12 communes with a total of 20 villages) and Plasa Tătărești (capital Tătărești, composed of 16 communes with a total of 25 villages).{{sfn|Platon|1999|p=471}}
In 1944, Romania abandoned the Axis and joined the Allies, having to agree to giving up Bessarabia again.{{sfn|Hitchins|2014|pp=212–213}}{{sfn|Hitchins|2014|p=215}}
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Category:Former counties of Romania
Category:Counties of Bessarabia
Category:1941 establishments in Romania
Category:1944 disestablishments in Romania