Sighetu Marmaţiei (Hungarian: Máramarossziget, Ruthenian: Sihota), formely Sighet, is a city in Maramureş county near Iza river, in Maramureş region, in Romania. Administrative map of Romania with Maramureş county highlighted Maramureş (Hungarian: Máramaros) is a Romanian county (judeţ) in the Transylvania region, with the capital city at Baia-Mare (population: 149,735). ...

The city has 44,185 inhabitants (14.8% Hungarian, 3.3% Ruthenian; 1992 census).

Neighboring communities are: Sărăsau, Săpânţa, Ocna şugatag, Giuleşti, Vadu Izei, Rona de Jos and Bocicoiu Mare communities in Romania, Bila Cerkva community and Solotvino "town type community" in Ukraine (Transcarpathia). Zakarpattya or Transcarpathia (Закарпатська область, Zakarpats’ka oblast’ in Ukrainian) is an oblast (region) of Ukraine. ...

History

The city has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. There is a very important rout in the Theiss Valley. The first mention of the settlement is from the 11th century. The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... The Tisza (in Hungarian, Ukrainian: Tysa/Тиса, Russian: Tisa/Тиса, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian: Tisa, German: Theiß, Latin: Tissus, Tisia or Pathissus) is a river, tributary of the Danube and one of the major rivers of Central Europe, passing through Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Serbia and Montenegro. ... (10th century - 11th century - 12th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...

King Ladislas IV of Hungary settled Romanians in this territory between 1272 and 1290. The Dragoă family in Maramureă was the founder of the Principality of Moldova. In 1352 the city was a free Royal Town, capital of Máramaros County. Ladislaus IV the Cuman (Hungarian: IV László, Slovak: Ladislav IV)(1262 - July 10, 1290), also known as Laszlo IV, king of Hungary, was the son of Stephen V, whom he succeeded in 1272. ... Events August 6 - Stephen Vs death makes his son, Ladislaus, King of Hungary. ... Events King Edward I of England banishes all Jews from Britain. ... Events June 4 - Glarus joins the Swiss Confederation. ...

From 1556 - like the Castle of Huszt - the settlement became the town of the Prince of Transylvania. From 1570 - 1733 the town and the county was the part of the Principality of Transylvania. In 1733 King Charles III reallocated it and Máramaros County to Hungary from Transylvania. Máramarossziget was one of the Romanian and Ruthenian cultural and political centers in Hungary. In 1910 the settlement was a town in the Máramaros County of the Kingdom of Hungary. Events January 16 - Abdication of Emperor Charles V. His son, Philip II becomes King of Spain, while his brother Ferdinand becomes Holy Roman Emperor January 23 - The Shaanxi earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history, occurs with its epicenter in Shaanxi province, China. ... Events January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI Charles VI (October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 and the second son of Leopold I with his third wife, Eleonore-Magdalena of Pfalz-Neuburg. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Sighetu Marmaţiei came under Romanian administration (see Kingdom of Romania) at the end of WWI (see Treaty of Trianon), and again under hungarian administration in 1940 (see Vienna Award). From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Grand Trianon at Versailles, site of the signing The Treaty of Trianon was an agreement that regulated the situation of the new Hungarian state that replaced the Kingdom of Hungary, part of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy, after World War I. It was signed on June 4, 1920, at... The two Vienna Awards or Vienna Arbitration Awards or Vienna Arbitral Awards or Vienna Diktats or Viennese Arbitrals is the name of two arbitral awards (1938 and 1940), by which arbiters of the National Socialist Germany and of Fascist Italy tried to enforce territorial claims of the Revisionist Hungary ruled...

The Hungarian administration lasted until 1944 and in these years more than 20,000 Jews from Sighet would be sent to Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Nowadays there are only about 100 Jews living in Sighetu Marmaţiei. The Jewish community was formerly led by the Teitelbaum family who also led that of the Satmar (Moshe Teitelbaum was Sigheter Rebbe before succeeding his uncle Joel Teitelbaum as Satmar Rebbe). 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Satmar is the largest Hasidic group in existence today. ... Rebbe is a title that may be given to a rabbi in Orthodox Judaism, particular in Hasidic Judaism. ... Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (d. ...

The Treaty of Paris at the end of World War II rendered the Vienna Diktat void, and Sighetu Marmaţiei returned to Romania. The settlement was a town 1952 - 1960 in Baia Mare Region, a city 1960 - 1968 in Maramureă Region and since 1968 in Maramureă County. There are several treaties that have taken place in Paris: Treaty of Paris (1259) - between Henry III of England and Louis IX of France Treaty of Paris (1763) - ended Seven Years War Treaty of Paris (1783) - ended American Revolutionary War Treaty of Paris (1810) - ended war between France and Sweden... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Baia Mare (Hungarian: Nagybánya, German: Neustadt) the county seat of Maramures, is an important city in northern Romania. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

In the 1960s the Securitate (The Communist secret police) ran a prison for "class enemies" in Sighet. The prison is now a museum. Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... The Securitate (Romanian for Security; official full name Departamentul Securităţii statului, State Security Department), was the secret police force of Communist Romania. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A secret police (sometimes political police) force is a police organization that operates in secret to enforce state security. ...

Well-known Hungarian naturalist-realist painter Simon Hollósy was born in the town on February 2, 1857.