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Its well-preserved wooden villages and churches, its traditional lifestyle, and the local colourful dresses still in use make Maramureș as near to a living museum as can be found in Europe. The wooden churches of the region that still stand were built starting from the 17th century all the way to 19th century.
Romanians wearing Maramureș traditional clothing at a church in Sat-Șugatag. In the southern area, the majority of the population are Romanians. There are also some Hungarians, Rusyns, Ukrainians, Zipser Germans, Jews, and Roma. In the northern area, the majority are Ukrainians, with smaller Romanian, Hungarian and German communities.
The commune is located in the central part of Maramureș County, 44 km (27 mi) northeast of the county seat, Baia Mare, and lies on the banks of the river Cosău. County road DJ109F [] connects Budești with the town of Cavnic, 17 km (11 mi) away, through the Neteda Pass [].
Săpânța (Romanian pronunciation: [səˈpɨnt͡sa]; Hungarian: Szaplonca, Hungarian pronunciation: [ʃzɒplontsɒ]; Slovak: Sapunka; Yiddish: ספינקא, romanized: Shpinka or Spinka) is a commune of 3,365 inhabitants situated in Maramureș County, Romania, 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) northwest of Sighetu Marmației at the northern foothills of the Gutâi Mountains and at the confluence of the ...
The mass evacuations were being carried out urgently in towns and villages nearest the western and southern slopes of Kanlaon which were blanketed by its ash, including in La Castellana town in Negros Occidental where nearly 47,000 people have to be evacuated out of a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) danger zone, the Office of Civil Defense said.
Northern Maramureș (gold) as part of the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine, with district boundaries shown. Northern Maramureș (Romanian: Maramureșul de Nord, [maraˈmureʃul de ˈnord]; Hungarian: Észak-Máramaros; Ukrainian: Північна Мараморщина, romanized: Pivnichna Maramorshchyna) is a geographic-historical region comprising roughly the eastern half of the Zakarpattia ...
The village prayed to God and St. John the Baptist as the men lined up to be killed. “Rain poured and the killings were canceled because the Japanese soldiers believed this was a sign of ...
The village of Peri (Grushevo) is situated on the right bank of the river Tisza, in what is today Northern Maramureș, between Apșa de Jos to the east, Teresva (also spelled Taras in older sources) to the west, Strâmtura to the north, all three currently in Ukraine and Săpânța, currently in Romania, to the south, on the opposite side of ...