In the Middle Ages, its territory belonged to the Fălciu County, in Moldavia, but after the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812, it became a county by itself.
In 1878, it was again annexed by the Russians, who merged it with the Ismail County.
The Romanian county was abolished in the 1938 Administrative and Constitutional Reform.
[1][2] After the independence, the Republic of Moldova established a Moldovan county of the same name in 1999, but disestablished it in 2003.
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