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PLASA.
Plasă (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈplasə], plural plăși[ˈpləʃʲ]) was a territorial division unit of
Romania, ranking below
county (județ) and above
commune. It was headed by a Pretor, appointed by the
county Prefect. The institution headed by the Pretor was called Pretură.
The division of counties into plăși was used starting from the rule of
Carol I as Domnitor, throughout the existence of a
Romanian Kingdom, and during the first two years of the
Romanian People's Republic, until they were replaced in 1950 by
raions, following the
Soviet system.[1] In 1938, the country's 71 județe were divided into 429 plăși.[2]
References
^"Legea nr. 5 pentru raionarea administrativ-economică a teritoriului Republicii Populare Romîne" (published in Buletinul Oficial, No. 77 / September 8, 1950); Ronald A. Helin, "The Volatile Administrative Map of Rumania", in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 57, No. 3 (September 1967), pp.481-502