Maramures
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Maramureș may refer to the following:
- MaramureșMaramuresMaramureș may refer to the following:*Maramureș, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day Romania and Ukraine, that occupies the Maramureș Depression and Maramureș Mountains, a mountain range in North East Carpathians...
, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, that occupies the Maramureș Depression and Maramureș Mountains, a mountain range in North East CarpathiansCarpathian MountainsThe Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe...
. Alternative names: Land of Maramureș, Țara Maramureșului, Maramureș (historical region), Maramureș (geographical region), Máramaros, Marmatia, Marmația. - Maramureș CountyMaramures CountyMaramureș is a county of Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare.- History :* The 10th century frontier county of Borsova was founded by Stephen I of Hungary. Since then Máramaros served as the north-eastern border of the Hungarian Kingdom until 1920, the Trianon Peace...
, the southern part of Maramureș, is a countyCountyA county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain modern nations. Historically in mainland Europe, the original French term, comté, and its equivalents in other languages denoted a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain...
in Romania. In 1918-1938, it covered only ca. half of what it covers today, hence when one wants to distinguish that in historical contexts, one also refers to Maramureș County (1918-1938). - Maramureș Region, a former administrative unit of Communist RomaniaCommunist RomaniaCommunist 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...
in 1960-1968, which covered a much larger area than Maramureș County. - Northern MaramureshNorthern MaramureshNorthern Maramuresh is a geographic-historical region comprising roughly the eastern half of the Zakarpattia Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, near the border with Romania...
, the northern part of Maramureş, is a geographic, historical, and ethno-cultural region in Ukraine - Máramaros County, a county in the historic Kingdom of HungaryKingdom of HungaryThe Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...
. Alternative names: Máramaros, Máramaros comitatus, Maramureș comitatus. It might also refer to the 1940-1944 county of HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, something alternatively referred as Máramaros (World War II). - Wooden churches of MaramureșWooden Churches of MaramuresThe Wooden Churches of Maramureş in the Maramureş region of northern Transylvania are a group of almost one hundred churches of different architectural solutions from different periods and areas. They are Orthodox churches. The Maramureş churches are high timber constructions with characteristic...
, specific style old churches made of wood beams.