Máramaros County
| Máramaros County Comitatus Maramarosiensis (Latin) Máramaros vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Maramuresch (German) Комітат Марамарош (Rusyn) Comitatul Maramureș (Romanian) |
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| County of the Kingdom of Hungary | |||||
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| Capital |
Máramarossziget 47°56′N 23°53′E / 47.933°N 23.883°ECoordinates: 47°56′N 23°53′E / 47.933°N 23.883°E |
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| History | |||||
| • | Established | 12th century | |||
| • | Treaty of Trianon | 4 June 1920 | |||
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| • | 1910 | 9,716 km2(3,751 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1910 | 357,700 | |||
| Density | 36.8 /km2 (95.4 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of |
 Ukraine Romania |
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| Sighetu Marmației is the current name of the capital. | |||||
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Máramaros (Romanian: Maramureș; Rusyn: Мараморош / Maramorosh, Мараморыш / Maramorŷsh; Ukrainian: Мармарощина – Marmaroshchyna; Latin: Marmatia) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Romania and western Ukraine. The capital of the county was Máramarossziget (present-day Sighetu Marmației).
Máramaros county shared borders with the Austrian crownlands Galicia (now in Poland and Ukraine) and Bukovina (now 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.
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