Máramaros

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name =
conventional_long_name = Máramaros County
common_name = Máramaros
subdivision = County
nation = the Kingdom of Hungary
p1 =
s1 =
year_start = 1876
event_end = Treaty of Trianon
year_end = 1920
date_end = June 4

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capital = Máramarossziget
stat_area1 = 9716
stat_pop1 = 357700
stat_year1 = 1910
today = Ukraine, Romania
footnotes = 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).

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.

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.

Demographics

Population by language (1910 census):
*Ruthenian = 159,489
*Romanian = 84,510
*German = 59,552
*Hungarian = 52,964

ubdivisions

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

Rakhiv, Teresva, Tiachiv, Khust, Dovhe and Mizhhir'ya are presently in Ukraine; Sighetu Marmaţiei, Ocna Şugatag, Dragomireşti and Vişeu de Sus are presently in Romania.