{{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> | official_name = Județul Muscel | other_name = | settlement_type = County (''Județ'') | image_skyline =Primaria Campulung, fosta Prefectura Muscel.jpg | image_caption =The Muscel County Prefecture's building from the interwar period, now Câmpulung city hall. | image_flag = | flag_link = | image_shield = Interbelic Muscel County CoA.png | shield_link = | image_map = Romania 1930 county Muscel.png | map_caption = | subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] | subdivision_name = [[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] | subdivision_type2 = Historic region | subdivision_name2 = [[Muntenia]] | subdivision_type3 = County seat (''Reședință de județ'') | subdivision_name3 = [[Câmpulung]] | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_party = | leader_title = [[Prefect (Romania)|Prefect]] | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | established_title = Established | established_date = Sometime before 1601 | established_title2 = Ceased to exist | established_date2 = [[Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania|Administrative reform]] of 1950 | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 =3058 | 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 = 149797 | 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 = [[Eastern European Time|EET]] | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = [[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]] | utc_offset_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = | blank_name = | blank_info = | footnotes = | website = }} '''Muscel County''' is a former first-order administrative district of Romania. It was located in the southern central part of [[Greater Romania]], in the northwestern part of the historic region of [[Muntenia]]. Its territory is now mostly part of [[Argeș County]], while some communes ([[Malu cu Flori]], [[Pucheni]] and [[Văleni-Dâmbovița]]) now belong to [[Dâmbovița County]]. The county seat was [[Câmpulung]].
The county was bordered on the west by [[Argeș County]], to the north by the counties of [[Făgăraș County|Făgăraș]] and [[Brașov County|Brașov]], and to the east by [[Dâmbovița County]].
In 1938, the county was disestablished and incorporated into the newly formed [[Ținutul Argeș]], but it was re-established in 1940 after the fall of [[Carol II of Romania|Carol II]]'s regime – only to be [[Regions of the People's Republic of Romania|abolished on 6 September 1950]] by the [[Communist Romania|Communist regime]].
==Administrative organization== [[File:Tara Romaneasca judete 1601-1718.svg|thumb|230px|The counties of [[Wallachia]] after 1601, including Muscel]] [[File:1938 map of interwar county Muscel.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Map of Muscel County, as constituted in 1938.]] Administratively, Muscel County was originally divided into two districts (''[[plasă|plăși]]''):<ref name=Memoria>[http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/muscel/ Portretul României Interbelice - Județul Muscel]</ref> #Plasa Podgoria #Plasa Radu-Negru
Subsequently a third district was established: <ol start="3"> <li>Plasa Râul Doamnei</li> </ol>
By 1938, the county was divided administratively into six districts: #Plasa Argeșel #Plasa Dâmbovița #Plasa Podgoria #Plasa Râul Doamnei #Plasa Râurile #Plasa Golești
== Population == According to the 1930 census data, the county population was 149,797 inhabitants, ethnically divided as follows: 97.1% Romanians, 2.3% Romanies, 0.2% Hungarians, as well as other minorities. From the religious point of view, 99.3% Orthodox, 0.3% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.
=== Urban population === In 1930, the county's urban population was 13,868 inhabitants, ethnically divided as follows: 95.4% Romanians, 1.2% Hungarians, 0.9% Romanies, 0.5% Germans, as well as other minorities. From the religious point of view, the urban population was composed of 95.8% Eastern Orthodox, 2.2% Roman Catholic, 0.6% Reformed (Calvinist), 0.4% Evangelical (Lutheran), 0.3% Baptist, 0.2% Greek Catholic, as well as other minorities.
==Industry== A [[paper factory]] (''Câmpulungul S. A.'') functioned within the county seat, the town of Câmpulung, as of 1931.<ref>H. T. Montague Bell, Near East, Limited, 1931, ''The Near East Year Book and Who's who: A Survey of the Affairs, Political, Economic and Social, of Yugoslavia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey'', p. 564</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscat|Interwar Muscel County}}
* {{in lang|ro}} [http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/muscel/index.html Muscel County on memoria.ro]
{{Historical counties of Romania}} {{Coord missing|Romania}}
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