NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Maramures

Maramureş (Hungarian: Máramaros) is a county ("judeţ") in the Maramures region, in Romania, with the capital city at Baia-Mare (population: 149,735). Its common abbreviation is MM. Romanian map with highlighted county Made by me File links The following pages link to this file: Maramures Categories: GFDL images | NowCommons | Romania county maps ... A diacritical mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ... Baia Mare (Hungarian: Nagybánya, German: Neustadt) the county seat of Maramures, is an important city in northern Romania. ...

Maramureş is known for the persistence of its agricultural traditions, largely unaffected by industrialisation. The region escaped collectivisation under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, with the result that local people retain a very close relationship with the land. Ploughing, planting, harvesting, hay-making and almost every demand of farming are met by manual labour. The rural areas of the region have few roads, which are often impassable to all but horsecarts or determined walkers. Industrialisation (or industrialization) or an industrial revolution (in general, with lowercase letters) is a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state. ... Collective farming is an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farms net output. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Nicolae Ceauşescu. ... Manual labor is a term used for hard physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled manual job such as fruit and vegetable picking, et cetera. ...

Demographics

In 2000, it had a population of 533,162 and the population density was 85/km². 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Geography

This county has a total area of 6,304 km². To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ...

List of cities in Maramureş county

Baia Mare (Hungarian: Nagybánya, German: Neustadt) the county seat of Maramures, is an important city in northern Romania. ... . Sighetu Marmaţiei (Hungarian: Máramarossziget, Ruthenian: Sihota), formely Sighet, is a city in Maramureş county near Iza river, in Maramureş region, in Romania. ... Categories: Stub | Maramures | Romanian cities ... Vişeul de Sus (Hungarian: Felsővisó, German: Oberwischau) is a town in Maramureş county, Romania, located at the confluence of the Vişeu river and Vaser. ... Baia Sprie (Hungarian: Felsőbánya, German: Mittelstadt) is a town in the Maramures (Hungarian Máramaros) County of Romania. ... Cavnic (Hungarian: Kapnikbánya, German: Kapnik) is a mining town in the North of Romania, in the Maramures county. ...

Places of the Maramureş county

See also

Maramureş wooden churches The Maramureş wooden churches in Northern Transylvania are a selection of eight examples of different architectural solutions from different periods and areas. ... Cimitirul Vesel The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânţa, Maramureş county, Romania that is famous for its colourful tombstones with the naive painting that represent scenes from the life of the burried persons and even poetry in which the are described those persons. ...

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