From Cluj-Napoca to Rogoz, Maramures

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🗺 Maramures is in Northwest Romania, bordering Ukraine to the N and Satu Mare to the W. ⛞ 17250 sq km (6,662 sq miles). 🌡 Continental with precipitation in summertime and snow in wintertime. 👪 530,000 🏙 Baia Mare and Sighetu Marmatiei. ✈ Baia Mare (BAY) and Satu Mare (SUJ); Cluj Napoca (CLJ) - 188km (117 miles) S of Sighetu Marmatiei, and Oradea (OMR) - 225km (140 miles) SW of Sighetu Marmatiei. 🚆 Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Sighetu Marmatiei, Valea Viseului, Viseu de Jos. ✉ Str. Gheorghe Sincai 46, Baia Mare. 📞 0262 206 113 🏛 Museum of Maramures in Sighetu Marmatiei. 🎭 Baia Mare Drama Theatre. ✨ Hora de la Prislop at the Prislop Pass: second Sunday in August.

Maramures is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated on the northeastern Carpathians, along the upper Tisa River; it covers the Maramures Depression and the surrounding Carpathian mountains.

History

In ancient times, this area was settled by Celts, Dacians, Sarmatians and Germanic peoples. In the first century BC, it was part of the Dacian Kingdom under Burebista, while in the early Middle Ages, it was ruled by the Hunnic Empire, the Kingdom of the Gepids, the Kingdom of the Avars, the White Croatia and the Kievan Rus'.

The territory was part of the Kingdom of Hungary from the 11th century.

In the 16th century, the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was invaded and destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, and the area came under administration of the semi-independent Ottoman Principality of Transylvania and later (in the end of the 17th century) under administration of the Habsburg Monarchy (later known as the Austrian Empire).

After the First World War, the region was divided between Romania and Czechoslovakia at the territory of Hutsul Republic, while in 1940 the whole area became part of Hungary again and was controlled during World War II until 1944. After World War II, the southern section remained within the Romanian borders and is now part of Maramureș County; the northern section was incorporated into the Soviet Union and is now part of Zakarpattia Oblast of independent Ukraine.