Maramures Region

Maramures Region — the Rusyn-inhabited part of northcentral Romania along the present-day border with Ukraine. The Maramures Region consists of about a dozen Rusyn villages along the southern bank of the Tisza (Rusyn: Tysa) River and its tributaries the Viseu (Rusyn: Vyshova) and Ruscova (Rusyn: Rus’kova) rivers. Also included on the southern bank of the Tisza is the town of Sighet/Sighetu Marmatiei, which was the administrative center of the pre-World War I Hungarian county of *Maramorosh (Hungarian: Maramaros) and a cultural center for the local Rusyn community. After World War I Maramorosh county was divided along the Tisza River between Czechoslovakia (*Subcarpathian Rus’) on the northern bank and Romania (the Maramures Region) on the southern bank. According to present-day administrative boundries, the Rusyn-inhabited Maramures Region is part of the larger Romanian district (judete) of Maramures.

Paul Robert Magocsi

Entry courtesy of Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture.
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