Máramaros

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Máramaros County

County of the Kingdom of Hungary

1876 – 1920

Capital

Máramarossziget

History

- Established

1876

- Treaty of Trianon

June 4, 1920

Area

- 1910

9,716 km² (3,751 sq mi)

Population

- 1910 est.

357,700

Density

36.8 /km² (95.4 /sq mi)

Today part of

Ukraine, Romania

Sighetu Marmaţiei is the current name of the capital.

Máramaros (Romanian: Maramureş; Rusyn: Мараморош / Maramorosh, Мараморыш / Maramorŷsh; Ukrainian: Мармарощина / Marmaroshchyna, Мараморщина / Maramorshchyna; Latin: Marmatia) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in north-western Romania and western Ukraine. The capital of the county was Sighetu Marmaţiei (-Romanian, Máramarossziget in Hungarian).

1 Geography
2 History
3 Demographics
4 Subdivisions

[edit] Geography

Máramaros county shared borders with the Austrian crownlands Galicia (currently in Poland and Ukraine) and Bukovina (currently in Romania and Ukraine) and the Hungarian counties Bereg, Ugocsa, Szatmár, Szolnok-Doboka and Beszterce-Naszód. It was situated on both sides of the river Tisza, and in the Carpathian mountains. Its area was 9720 km² around 1910.

[edit] History

In 1920 after the Treaty of Trianon, the northern part of the county became part of newly formed Czechoslovakia. The southern part (including Sighetu Marmaţiei) became part of Romania.

During World War II, the Czechoslovak part was occupied by Hungary under the First Vienna Award. The county Máramaros was recreated, with Khust/Huszt as capital. The Romanian part was from 1940 to 1944 a part of Hungary. After World War II, the formerly Czechoslovak part of Máramaros county became part of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian SSR, Zakarpattia Oblast. Since 1991, when the Soviet Union split up, the Zakarpattya region is part of Ukraine.

The southern part of the county is now part of the Romanian county Maramureş.

[edit] Demographics

Population by language (1910 census):

Ruthenian = 159,489
Romanian = 84,510
German = 59,552
Hungarian = 52,964

[edit] Subdivisions

In the early 20th century, the subdivisions of Máramaros county were:

Districts (járás)
District	Capital
Dolha	Dolha, UA Dovhe
Huszt	Huszt, UA Khust
Izavölgy	Dragomérfalva, RO Dragomireşti
Ökörmező	Ökörmező, UA Mizhhir'ya
Sugatag	Aknasugatag, RO Ocna Şugatag
Sziget	Máramarossziget, RO Sighetu Marmaţiei
Taracviz	Taracköz, UA Teresva
Técső	Técső, UA Tiachiv
Tiszavölgy	Rahó, UA Rakhiv
Visó	Felsővisó, RO Vişeu de Sus
Urban districts (rendezett tanácsú város)
Máramarossziget, RO Sighetu Marmaţiei