Máramaros County

Máramaros is also the Hungarian name for the Romanian county Maramureş, although the borders are different. (Only the southern part of Máramaros is part of Maramureş)

Máramaros 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 1918 (confirmed by the Treaty of Trianon 1920), 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. Romanian part was from 1941 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.

Districts

In the early 20th century, the districts and their capitals were:

• Sziget, capital Máramarossziget (Romanian: Sighetu Marmaţiei)
• Sugatag, capital Aknasugatag (Romanian: Ocna Şugatag)
• Izavölgy, capital Dragomérfalva (Romanian: Dragomireşti)
• Visó, capital Felsővisó (Romanian: Vişeu de Sus)
• Tiszavölgy, capital Rahó (Ukrainian: Rakhiv)
• Taracviz, capital Taracköz (Ukrainian: Teresva)
• Técső (Ukrainian: Tyachiv)
• Huszt (Ukrainian: Khust)
• Dolha (Ukrainian: Dovhe)
• Ökörmező (Ukrainian: Mizhhir'ya)

Urban district:

• Máramarossziget (Romanian: Sighetu Marmaţiei)

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