Transylvania is a historical region which is located in central Romania. Bound on the east and south by its natural borders, the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended westward to the Apuseni Mountains. The term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also parts of the historical regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally the Romanian part of Banat.
Maramureș County is a county (județ) of Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare.
Satu Mare County is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Hungary and Ukraine. The capital city is Satu Mare. Besides Romanians, Satu Mare features a significant ethnic minority of Hungarians (34.5%).
Sighetu Marmației, until 1964 Sighet, is a city (municipality) in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania.
Baia Sprie is a town in the Maramureș County, northern Romania. Baia Sprie is situated at a distance of 9 km from Baia Mare.
The Magyar Autonomous Region (1952–1960) and Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region (1960–1968) were autonomous regions in the People's Republic of Romania.
Nord-Vest is a development region in Romania, created in 1998. As other development regions, it does not have any administrative powers, its main function being to co-ordinate regional development projects and manage funds from the European Union.
The Sighet prison, located in the town of Sighetu Marmaţiei, Maramureş county, Romania, was used by Romania to hold criminals, POWs and political prisoners. It is now the site of the Sighet Memorial Museum, part of the Memorial of the Victims of Communism.
Northern Maramuresh is a geographic-historical region comprising roughly the eastern half of the Zakarpattia Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, near the border with Romania. Until 1920, it was part of the Maramureş of Transylvania, at which time the former Máramaros County was divided into a northern part, and a southern part. Alternative names for the regions are Northern Máramaros, Northern Maramureş, Northern Maramorshchyna, Northern Marmatia.
The regions represented the result of a Soviet-inspired experiment regarding the administrative and territorial organisation of the People's Republic of Romania between 1950 and 1968.
Regiunea Bihor was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, copied after the Soviet style of territorial organisation.
Regiunea Cluj was one of the newly established administrative divisions of the People's Republic of Romania, set after the Soviet style.
Hodod is a commune of 3,209 inhabitants situated in Satu Mare County, Romania. It is composed of four villages:
The Gutin Mountains are a mountain range within the Vihorlat-Gutin Area of the Inner Eastern Carpathians. They are centered in Maramureș County in Romania, bordering Satu Mare County, and also stretching further towards northwest as the Oaș Mountains, reaching border with Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine.
Line 400 is one of CFR's main lines in Romania having a total length of 560 km. The main line, connecting Brașov with the northwestern city Satu Mare, passes through the important cities Sfântu Gheorghe, Miercurea Ciuc, Dej, Jibou and Baia Mare.
Maramureș 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 Maramureș Depression and the surrounding Carpathian mountains.
AmramTaub was the rabbi of over fifty years of Congregation Arugas Habosem, a synagogue in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Taub was called the "Brider Rebbe", after his paternal ancestor Rabbi Aharon Tzvi Taub, the Hasidic rebbe of Brid in Hungary.
Someș County is one of the historic counties of Transylvania, Romania. The county seat was Dej.
Grigore Pintea, aka Pintea The Brave, was a famous heroic haiduc (vigilantee) stemming from Măgoaja, Lăpuș Country.
Ioan Buteanu was a leader of the Transylvanian Romanian Revolutionaries in 1848 and a prefect of Zaránd County between 1848 and 1849.