# Muscel County

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County in Romania

Județul Muscel County (Județ) The Muscel County Prefecture's building from the interwar period, now Câmpulung city hall. Coat of arms Country Romania Historic region Muntenia County seat (Reședință de județ) Câmpulung Established Sometime before 1601 Ceased to exist Administrative reform of 1950 Area • Total 3,058 km2 (1,181 sq mi) Population (1930) • Total 149,797 • Density 48.99/km2 (126.9/sq mi) Time zone UTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

**Muscel County** is a former first-order administrative district of Romania. It was located in the southern central part of [Greater Romania](/source/Greater_Romania), in the northwestern part of the historic region of [Muntenia](/source/Muntenia). Its territory is now mostly part of [Argeș County](/source/Arge%C8%99_County), while some communes ([Malu cu Flori](/source/Malu_cu_Flori), [Pucheni](/source/Pucheni) and [Văleni-Dâmbovița](/source/V%C4%83leni-D%C3%A2mbovi%C8%9Ba)) now belong to [Dâmbovița County](/source/D%C3%A2mbovi%C8%9Ba_County). The county seat was [Câmpulung](/source/C%C3%A2mpulung).

The county was bordered on the west by [Argeș County](/source/Arge%C8%99_County), to the north by the counties of [Făgăraș](/source/F%C4%83g%C4%83ra%C8%99_County) and [Brașov](/source/Bra%C8%99ov_County), and to the east by [Dâmbovița County](/source/D%C3%A2mbovi%C8%9Ba_County).

In 1938, the county was disestablished and incorporated into the newly formed [Ținutul Argeș](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C8%9Ainutul_Arge%C8%99&action=edit&redlink=1), but it was re-established in 1940 after the fall of [Carol II](/source/Carol_II_of_Romania)'s regime – only to be [abolished on 6 September 1950](/source/Regions_of_the_People's_Republic_of_Romania) by the [Communist regime](/source/Communist_Romania).

## Administrative organization

The counties of [Wallachia](/source/Wallachia) after 1601, including Muscel

Map of Muscel County, as constituted in 1938.

Administratively, Muscel County was originally divided into two districts (*[plăși](/source/Plas%C4%83)*):[1]

1. Plasa Podgoria

1. Plasa Radu-Negru

Subsequently a third district was established:

1. Plasa Râul Doamnei

By 1938, the county was divided administratively into six districts:

1. Plasa Argeșel

1. Plasa Dâmbovița

1. Plasa Podgoria

1. Plasa Râul Doamnei

1. Plasa Râurile

1. 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](/source/Paper_factory) (*Câmpulungul S. A.*) functioned within the county seat, the town of Câmpulung, as of 1931.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Memoria_1-0)** [Portretul României Interbelice - Județul Muscel](http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/muscel/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** 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

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Interwar Muscel County](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Interwar_Muscel_County).

- (in Romanian) [Muscel County on memoria.ro](http://romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro/judete/muscel/index.html)

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