The Romanian county was abolished in the 1938 "Administrative and Constitutional Reform". In 1940, the area was occupied by the Soviet Union. It was briefly reconstituted as a Romanian county during the 1941-1944 Romanian reintegration of Bessarabia, after Operation München, but was returned to the Soviet Union after the Romanian armistice was signed. After the independence, the Republic of Moldova established a Moldovan county of the same name in 1999, but disestablished it in 2003.