Máramaros County

County Máramaros ( also German county of Maramures Maramures or; Hungarian Vármegye Máramaros or older Marmaros, Latin comitatus Maramarosiensis ) was an administrative unit ( county, county ) in the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, the northern part is located in the Western Ukraine ( Transcarpathian oblast ) and the southern part of the north-western Romania ( in Maramureş County ).

Location

The county bordered on the north and north-east to the Austrian Duchy of Galicia (or before 1772 in Poland), on a small piece on the east by the Austrian crown land Bukovina in the eastern south by the county Bistrita - Naszod ( Beszterce - Naszód ), in the south the county - Szolnok Doboka, on the southwest by the county Satu Mare ( Szatmár ) and to the small county Ugocsa and to the west by the Bereg county.

It lay between the mountain range of the Carpathian Mountains in the north and on both sides of the Tisza and had 1910 357.705 inhabitants in an area of 9716 km ².

County subdivision

In the early 20th century following administrative division existed:

The places Dragomireşti, Ocna Şugatag, Sighetu Marmaţiei and Viseu de Sus are in present-day Romania, the rest in today's Ukraine.