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3 unusual facts about Maramureş


Maramureș

In the 16th century, medieval Kingdom of Hungary was invaded and destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, and 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).

The heavy forested mountains sustain many protected species of plants, such as yew (Taxus baccata), larch (Larix decidua), Swiss pine (Pinus cembra), edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum); and animals, such as lynx (Lynx lynx), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), alpine marmot (Marmota marmota), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).

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'.


Dumitru Cernicica

He was instrumental in re-establishing the new Romanian administration after a short-lived attempt to incorporate the Romanian-held southern areas of Maramureş together with the northern areas into the Soviet Union as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

13 traditional farms with some 90 buildings collected from several transylvanian ethnographical regions: Ţara Moţilor, Ţara Năsăudului, Bistriţa, Câmpia Transilvaniei, Maramureş, Székely Land, Ţara Zarandului, Podgoria Albă, Oaş Country, Gurghiu, Ţara Călatei, Bran

Great Union Day

The choice of December 1, though not explicitly declared in the law, referred to the unification of the provinces of Transylvania, Banat, Crişan, and Maramureş with Romania in 1918.

Romanian heraldry

Each of this provinces was a state in his own right in middle ages, who clearly wore inhabited by Romanians or rule by them, Ardeal was the realm of Gelou,Crişana was the real of Menumorut,Banat was the realm of Glad,and Maramures who was a confederation of clans back then is mentioned in the realm of Salan,a lord who controlled Tisza river, the only big find who can match the wealth of this lord was found in Maramureş at Khust.

Valea Neagră

Valea Neagră, a village attached to the city of Baia Mare, Maramureş County

Valentin Porcișteanu

Following the 2004 season in which he competed with a Dacia Nova GTI, within Class N1.6, finishing 4th at Brasov Rally, 3rd at Romania Rally and 4th at Harghita Rally, in 2005 he drove a Citroen Saxo VTS, his best event results being Class N1.6 victories at the Maramures Rally and Bucharest Rally.


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