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RUMANIA

The Cabinet (appointed June 21, 1920) is composed as follows : —

Prime Minister. — General Avercscu.

Minister of Foreign Affair*. — Take Jonescu.

Minister of the Interior. — M. Argetoiano.

Minister of War. — General Rascano.

Minister of Finance. — M. Titulesco.

Minister of Justice. — Michel Antinescu.

Minister of Agriculture. — M. Ciidalbu.

Minister of Public Works. — M. Petrovici.

Minister of Public Instruction. — M. Negulcsco.

Minister of Fine Arts and Public Worship. — Octavian Goga.

Minister of Communications. — General Valeano.

Minister of Labour. — Francou Jassi.

Minister of Commerce and Industry. — Octavian Tagloanul.

Minister for Transylvania. — M. Mocsonyi.

Minister for Bukovina. — Baron Starcea.

Minister for Bessarabia. — Serghie Nitza.

Local Government.

For purposes of local government Wallachia is divided into 17 districts, Moldavia into 13, the Dobrudja into 4, Bessarabia into 8, Bukovina into 11, and Transylvania (with Banat, Crisana and Maramure.sh) into 24 districts, each of which has a prefect, a receiver of taxes, and a civil tribunal. In Rumania (1919) there are 735 districts and 5,864 communes, 129 urban and 5,735 rural. In the rural communes there are 15,593 villages and 1,048 hamlets. The appellations 'urban' and 'rural' do not depend on the number of inhabitants, but is given by law.

Area and Population.

As a result of the Treaties of Peace of 1919 Rumania was enlarged, and the area and population of the New Kingdom is shown as follows : —

Country.

Area in sq. miles

Population.

Males Females

Total

Bessarabia

Bbkovioa

Maramtiresh

53,480

17,140 4,030

22,312 8,03s 6,258

11,000

8,939.6^6

1,108,000 305,903

1,350 480 659,886

378,2(15 7*0,102

8,702,092

3,014.498

1,145,! 404,135

1,327,887 057,145 888,461 703,031

7,904,1041 3,344,800

800,098 2,678,867 1,316,081

766,666 1,583,188

122,282

8,631,057 17,893,140

l Estimate for 1915.

The four historic divisions of Old Rumania were jiopulatcd (1912) as follows : — Moldavia, 2,145,464 (area, 14,710 square miles) ; Grand Wallachia (Muutenia), 3,298,394 (area, 29,810 square miles) ; Oltenia, 1,413,897; Dobrudja, 381,306 (area, 8,969 square miles.)

By the Treaty of Bucharest (August 7, 1913) between Bulgaria and Rumania, the former ceded to the latter 2,969 sq. miles of territory, with a population of 273,090, mostly Turks The new land was formed into two departments, Durostor and Caliacra.