The 1923 Constitution, a Source for Romania’s Administrative Reorganizations Until the Establishment of the Communist Regime: Case Study: Bihor County
The 1923 Constitution, a Source for Romania’s Administrative Reorganizations Until the Establishment of the Communist Regime: Case Study: Bihor County

Summary/Abstract: The constitution of Greater Romania required the reorganization of the entire national territory in order to achieve administrative-territorial unity. The Romanian Constitution of 1923 created the conditions for national consolidation. The first important law in this regard was passed in 1925. It was only at this time that the territorial-administrative unification of Romania was truly accomplished. Until then, four systems specific to each of the great historical regions—the Old Kingdom, Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina—had been in force in the country. On 14 June 1925, the Parliament in Bucharest passed the Law on the administrative-territorial unification of Romania which imposed the organizational formula of the Old Kingdom on all historical Romanian provinces. In the following two decades, until the establishment of the communist regime, there were several attempts at the administrative reorganization of the country. This study proposes a synthetic presentation of the repeated attempts made in this regard by several governments of interwar Romania and the first postwar governments, with a special focus on Bihor County, one of the largest in Romania and with the most complex problems, being also a territory on the border with revisionist Hungary.

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