inutul Prut (established 1937) was comprised of parts of Western Moldavia and Bessarabia, and its capital city was Iai (the second largest city in Romania).
Tinutul Prut was one of the ten Romanian tinuturi ("lands"), founded in 1938 after King Carol II initiated an institutional reform by modifying the 1923 Constitution and the law of territorial administration. It comprised parts of central Moldavia (and central Bessarabia), and was named after the Prut River; its capital was the city of Iasi. 
The administrative reform of 1938 
