Regiunea Arad was one of the newly established (in 1950) administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation. It existed until 1956, when its territory was divided between the Timişoara Region and Oradea Region.

History

The capital of the region was Arad

Arad, Romania

Arad is the capital city of Arad County, in western Romania, in the Crişana region, on the river Mureş.An important industrial center and transportation hub, Arad is also the seat of a Romanian Orthodox archbishop and features two universities, a Romanian Orthodox theological seminary, a training...

, and its territory comprised an area only a bit larger than the nowadays Arad County

Arad County

Arad is an administrative division of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crişana and few villages in Banat. The administrative center of the county lies in the city of Arad...

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Initially the region didn't comprise the area of Sânnicolau Mare

Sânnicolau Mare

Sânnicolau Mare is a town in Timiş County, Romania and the westernmost of the country. Located in the Banat region, along the borders with Serbia and Hungary, it has a population of just under 13,000...

 which it was attributed by the 1952 administrative reorganisation.

Neighbors

Arad region had as neighbors:

• 1950–1952: East: Hunedoara Region; South: Timişoara Region; West: Hungarian People's Republic; North: Cluj Region and Bihor Region.
• 1952–1956: East: Hunedoara Region; South: Timişoara Region; West: Hungarian People's Republic; North: Cluj Region and Oradea Region.

Rayons

• 1950–1952: Arad, Ineu, Criş, Gurahonţ, Lipova.
• 1952–1956: Arad, Ineu, Criş, Gurahonţ, Lipova, Sânnicolau Mare.