Baia County

{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Județul Baia | other_name = | settlement_type = County (''Județ'') | image_skyline =Muzeul Irimescu I.jpg | image_caption =The Baia County Prefecture building of the interwar period, now an art museum. | image_flag = | flag_link = | image_shield = Interbelic Baia County CoA.png | shield_link = | image_map = Romania 1930 county Baia.png | map_caption = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = 25px Romania | subdivision_type2 = Historic region | subdivision_name2 = Moldavia | subdivision_type3 = Capital city (''Reședință de județ'') | subdivision_name3 = Fălticeni | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_party = | leader_title = Prefect | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | established_title = Established | established_date = 1925 | established_title2 = Ceased to exist | established_date2 = Administrative reform of 1950 | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 =3353 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_total_sq_mi = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent = | area_urban_km2 = | area_urban_sq_mi = | area_metro_km2 = | area_metro_sq_mi = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = | latd = | latm = | lats = | latNS = | longd = | longm = | longs = | longEW = | population_as_of = 1930 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 157501 | population_density_km2 =auto | population_density_sq_mi = | population_metro = | population_density_metro_km2 = | population_density_metro_sq_mi = | population_urban = | population_density_urban_km2 = | population_density_urban_sq_mi = | population_note = | timezone = EET | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = EEST | utc_offset_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = | blank_name = | blank_info = | footnotes = | website = }} '''Baia County''' is one of the historic counties of Moldavia, Romania. The county seat was Fălticeni.<ref name="memoria">{{cite web|url=http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/baia/index.html|title=Portretul României interbelice - Județul Baia|publisher=memoria.ro|accessdate=17 August 2016|language=Romanian}}</ref>

In 1938, the county was disestablished and incorporated into the newly formed Ținutul Prut,<ref name="bzf.ro">{{cite web|url=http://www.bzf.ro/organizarea-administrativ-teritoriala-a-romaniei-1864-1989/|title=Organizarea administrativ-teritorială a României 1864-1989|publisher=bzf.ro|date=7 May 2013|accessdate=17 August 2016|language=Romanian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929030847/http://www.bzf.ro/organizarea-administrativ-teritoriala-a-romaniei-1864-1989/|archive-date=2014-09-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> but it was re-established in 1940 after the fall of Carol II's regime - only to be abolished 10 years later by the Communist regime.<ref name="bzf.ro"/>

==Geography== Baia County covered 3,353 km<sup>2</sup><ref name="memoria"/> and was located in Moldavia. Currently, the territory that comprised Baia County is now included in the Suceava County, Iași County and Neamț County. In the interwar period, the county neighbored Câmpulung and Suceava counties to the north, Botoșani to the northeast, Iași to the east, Roman to the south, and Neamț counties to the west.<ref name="memoria"/>

==Administrative organization== Administratively, Baia County was originally divided into three districts (''plăși''):<ref name="memoria"/> # Plasa Moldova, headquartered at Baia # Plasa Pașcani, headquartered at Pașcani # Plasa Siret, headquartered at Lespezi

Subsequently, Plasa Moldova district was divided into two new districts: <ol start="4"> <li>Plasa Boroaia, headquartered at Boroaia</li> <li>Plasa Mălini, headquartered at Mălini</li> </ol>

=== Population === According to the 1930 census data, the county population was 157,501 inhabitants, consisting of 91.8% Romanians, 4.8% Jews, 1.2% Romanies, 0.6% Germans, as well as other minorities. As a mother tongue 93.5% spoke Romanian, 3.7% Yiddish, 0.7% Romany, 0.6% German, as well as other minorities. From a religious point of view, the population consisted of 92.9% Eastern Orthodox, 4.9% Jewish, 1.0% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.

==== Urban population ==== In 1930, the county's urban population was ethnically 76.6% Romanian, 19.7% Jewish, 1.3% German, as well as other minorities. From the religious point of view, the urban population had the following structure: 76.5% Eastern Orthodox, 20.3% Jewish, 2.4% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.

==Gallery== <gallery> File:1938_map_of_interwar_county_Baia.jpg|Map of Baia County (1938) </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commonscat|Interwar Baia County}} * {{in lang|ro}} [http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/baia/index.html Baia County on memoria.ro]

Category:Former counties of Romania Category:1925 establishments in Romania Category:1938 disestablishments in Romania Category:1940 establishments in Romania Category:1950 disestablishments in Romania Category:States and territories established in 1925 Category:States and territories disestablished in 1938 Category:States and territories established in 1940 Category:States and territories disestablished in 1950