Editing County (section)

=== Ukraine ===
In Ukraine the county ({{Langx|uk|повіт|translit=povit}}) was introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland in the second half of the 14th century, and in the eighteenth century under the [[Russian Empire]] in the [[Cossack Hetmanate]], [[Sloboda Ukraine]], [[Southern Ukraine]], and [[Right-bank Ukraine|Right-Bank Ukraine]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=County|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CC%5CO%5CCounty.htm|access-date=2022-09-17|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine}}</ref> In 1913 there were 126 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited territories of the Russian Empire.<ref name=":0" /> Under the [[Austrian Empire]] in 1914 there were 59 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited Galicia, 34 in [[Carpathian Ruthenia|Transcarpathia]], and 10 in [[Bukovina]].<ref name=":0" /> Counties were retained by the independent [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] of 1917–1921, and in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania until the Soviet annexations at the start of World War II. 99 counties formed the [[Ukrainian SSR]] in 1919, where they were abolished in 1923–25 in favour of 53 [[Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|okruhas]] (in turn replaced by [[Oblasts of Ukraine|oblasts]] in 1930–32), although they existed in the [[Zakarpattia Oblast]] until 1953.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Okruha|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CO%5CK%5COkruha.htm|access-date=2022-09-17|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine}}</ref>