Sighetu Marmatiei

1. University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Mercine ,
Bucharest
Faculty of Management, Economical Engineering and Rural
Development
Bucuresti 2016
Students: Radu Georgiana
Savu Marina-Aurelia
Coordinating teacher:
Mihai Daniel Frumuselu
Group: 8204

2. 1.Introduction
2.Geography
3.Demographics
4.History
5.Sighet prison
6.Twin towns
7.Sitography

3. Sighetu Marmației
is a city in Maramures
Country near the Iza
River, in north-
western Romania.

4. Sighetu Marmației is situated along the Tisa
river on the border with Ukraine, across from
the Ukrainian town of Solotvyno. Neighboring
communities
include: Sarasău, Săpânța, Câmpulung la
Tisa, Ocna Șugatag, Giulești, Vadu Izei, Rona
de Jos and Bocicoiu Mare communities in
Romania, Bila Cerkva community and
the Solotvyno township in Ukraine (Zakarpattia
Oblast). The city administers five villages: Iapa
(Kabolapatak), Lazu Baciului (Bácsiláz), Șugău
(Sugó), Valea Cufundoasă (Mélypatak) and
Valea Hotarului (Határvölgy).
The city's name derives from the traco-dacian
word "zeget" which means castle or Hungarian
name which means "island in Máramaros".

5. The city has 37,640 inhabitants.
Romanians - 82.2%
Hungarians - 13%
Ukrainians - 2.3%
Roma - 1.5%
According to the 1910 census, the city had 21,370 inhabitants; these
consisted of 17,542 (82.1%) Hungarian speakers, 2,002 (9.4%) Romanian,
1,257 (5.9%) German, and 32 Ruthenian speakers. The number of Jews was
7,981; they were included in the Hungarian and German language groups.
There were 5,850 Greek Catholics and 4,901 Roman Catholics.

6. Inhabited since the Hallstatt period, the populated area lies
in the Tisza Valley, an important route as being the only
access to the otherwise mountainous, sparsely populated
region. After 895 in the 10th century the area became part
of Kingdom of Hungary. The first mention of a settlement
dates back to the 11th century, and the city as such was first
mentioned in 1326. In 1352, it was a free royal town and the
capital of Máramaros comitatus, just outside Transylvania.

7. After the establishment of the Romanian communist regime, the Security ran
the Sighet prison during the 1950s and 1960s as a place for the detention
and political repression of public figures who had been declared "class enemies."
The most prominent of these was the former prime minister Iuliu Maniu, who died
in the prison in 1953. The former prison is operated as a museum, part of
the Memorial for the Victims of Communism.

8. Sighetu Marmației is twinned with:
• Otawa, Poland
• Kolomyia, Ukraine
• Naples, Italy
• Kiryat Yam, Israel

9. -www.wikipedia.org
-www.sighet.ro
-www.romania.directbooking.ro
-www.traveleuropa.ro