Regiunea Cluj

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Regiunea Cluj (Cluj region) was one of the 1950 newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, set after the soviet style.

[edit] History

The capital of the region was Cluj-Napoca, and at first, its territory comprised an area slightly smaller than the nowadays Cluj and Sălaj counties. In 1952 it asimilated the Southern rayon of the dissoluted Rodna region and a rayon from the reorganised Mureş region, reaching an area slightly smaller than nowadays Cluj, Sălaj, Bistriţa-Năsăud counties. In 1960 it lost two rayons to the reorganised Mureş Region - Magyar Autonomous

[edit] Neighbors

Cluj region had as neighbors:

[edit] Rayons

  • 1950 - 1952: Cluj, Zalău, Huedin, Câmpeni, Dej, Turda, Gherla, Jibău, Aiud.
  • 1952 - 1960: Cluj, Zalău, Huedin, Câmpeni, Dej, Turda, Gherla, Jibou, Aiud, Năsăud, Bistriţa, Sărmaş, Luduş, Beclean.
  • 1960 - 1968: Cluj, Zalău, Huedin, Câmpeni, Dej, Turda, Gherla, Jibou, Aiud, Năsăud, Bistriţa, Beclean.