July 1941, to 1944.  By May 1944 it had been partially reconquered by   
                       Soviet forces.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
The area of Bessarabia is 17,143 square miles.  Its total population,   
according to the Rumanian census of 1930, was 2,864,402 of whom   
1,598,573 were Rumanian-speaking, 370,112 were Russian-Speaking, 331,183   
were Ukrainian-speaking, 201,278 were Yiddish-speaking, 164,551 were   
   Bulgarian-speaking, and 101,356 were Turkish speaking.   
 
                                                            
 
 
15. TRANSYLVANIA.--This area includes the former Grand Principality of   
Transylvania, Naramuresh, Crishana, and the Rumanian Banat.  Its cession   
by Hungary to Rumania was implicit in the Treaty of Trianon, June 4,   
1920,which fixed the common boundary between the two states. The   
division of the Banat betwen Rumania and Yugoslavia was determined by   
the Allied Supreme Council and accepted by the two states in August   
1919, and confirmed with slight modifications by a protocol signed at   
Belgrade on November 24, 1923, and an additional protocol signed in   
Bucharest, June 4, 1927.  By the Vienna Award of August 30, 1940, all of   
Maramuresh, most of Crisihana, and over half of Transylvania proper was   
                     ceded to Hungary.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
The total area in despute is 39,686 square miles.  Its total population,   
according to the Rumanians by declared nationality, 1,353,276 were   
Hungarians, 543,852 were Germans, and 43,342 were Yugoslavs. The   
northern part of Transylvania, which Hungary regained in 1940, is 16,000   
square miles in area, it contains some 1,149,000 Rumanians and 909,000   
                        Hungarians.                         
 
                                                            
 
 
16. SOUTHERN DOBRUJA.--Southern Dobbruja was ceded by Bulgeria to   
Rumania in the Treaty of Bucharest, August 10, 1913, following the   
  second Balkan war.  It was retroceded in September 1940.  
 
                                                            
 
 
The area of Southern Dobruja is 2,983 square miles.  Its total   
population, according to the Rumanian census of 1930, was 378,344, of   
whom 144,659 were Turkish speaking, 142,403 were Bulgarian-speaking, and   
79,739 were Rumanian-speaking.  Since that census virtually all the   
Rumanian inhabitants have been repatriated to Rumania, under an   
 agreement, and many of the Turks have migrated to Turkey.