CRIŞANA-MARAMUREŞ

krĭshäˈnä-märämooˈrĭsh, historic province, NW Romania, between Transylvania and Hungary. It covers approximately the present-day regions of Crişana (4,725 sq mi/12,238 sq km) and of Maramureş (4,053 sq mi/10,497 sq km). Arad, Oradea, and Satu-Mare are the chief cities. The region occupies the easternmost part of the Hungarian plain and the western foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. It is largely agricultural. Crişana-Maramureş was part of Hungary until 1919 and retains a sizable Hungarian minority.

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Comintern and Peasant in East Europe: 1919-1930
Book by George D. Jackson Jr.; Columbia University Press, 1966
Subjects: Agriculture And State--Europe, Eastern, Communist International, International Peasant Union, Mezhdunarodny?I Krest?Eiianski?I Sovet, Peasantry--Europe, Eastern
...Transylvania 1.30 52 67 51 24.6 Banat .81 50 57 Crisana-Maramures 1.15 65 69 Source: Dudley Kirk, Europes Population...subdivided into the provinces Transylvania, The Banat, Crisana, and Maramures. b Wilbert E. Moore, Economic Demography of...
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Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties
Book by Janusz Bugajski; M.E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Ethnic Relations--Political Aspects, Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government--1989-, Minorities--Europe, Eastern, Nationalism--Europe, Eastern
...only 23.9 percent of the total population of the Transylvanian region, 21.2 percent of the population of the Crisana Maramures region in northern Romania, and 6.6 percent of the population in the Banat region; an estimated 200,000 Hungarians...
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and after
Book by R. J. Crampton; Routledge, 1997
...was zionism. They were to be found in Galicia, central Poland, the kresy, Lithuania, Ruthenia, the Bukovina, Crisana Maramures north-eastern Transylvania , Bessarabia, and Letgale south-eastern Latvia . The western Jews were to be found...
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The Handbook of National Population Censuses
Book by Doreen S. Goyer, Gera E. Draaijer; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Europe--Census--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...districts in seven regions, the original Walachia and Moldavia plus Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, Banat, and Crisana-Maramures, gained after World War I. Censuses of housing and industries accompanied the census of population. The conduct...
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The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe
Book by Michael Mandelbaum; Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Ethnic Relations--Congresses, Minorities--Europe, Eastern--Congresses, Nationalism--Europe, Eastern--Congresses
...918,000 Magyar, and 234,000 Saxon. The territory subsequently annexed to Romania, which also included the Crisana, Maramures, and part of the Banat, held 2,800,000 Romanians, 1,705,000 Magyars, and 560,000 Germans (Saxons...
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Understanding Latent Religious Conflict: The Case of Frictions between the Greek Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Romania
Journal article by Ileana Alexandra Orlich; East European Quarterly, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Romanian Orthodox Eastern Church--Religious aspects, Romanian Orthodox Eastern Church--Reports
...and 110 chapels were built in the Transylvania and Crisana-Maramures areas, while 15 were returned through dialogue...Cluj-Napoca: Editura Societatii Culturale Pro Maramures "Dragos Voda". Bucur, Marius (2003). Din Istoria...
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Dej-a-Vu: Early Roots of Romania's Independence
Journal article by Johanna Granville; East European Quarterly, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Hungarian Revolution, 1956, Warsaw Treaty Organization
...Although not part of the core territory of the historic principality of Transylvania, the historical regions of Crisana and Maramures, and the Romanian section of the Banat are considered by many to be part of Transylvania today. (43.) Arh...


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CriŞana-MaramureŞ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CRISANA-MARAMURES krisha na-maramoo rish...present-day regions of Crisana (4,725 sq mi/12,238 sq km) and of Maramures (4,053 sq mi/10...largely agricultural. Crisana-Maramures was part of Hungary until...
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Romania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Transylvania , and parts of Bukovina , Crisana-Maramures , the Dobruja , and the Banat...Yugoslavia now in Serbia), and Crisana-Maramures (until then a part of Hungary...the S Dobruja, the Banat, Crisana-Maramures, and part of Transylvania...
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Satu-Mare
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SATU-MARE sa too-ma re, Hung. Szatmarnemeti or Szatmar, city (1990 pop. 137,723), NW Romania, in Crisana-Maramures, on the Somesul River, near the Hungarian border. The administrative, commercial, and cultural center of a...
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Oradea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...or Oradea-Mare ma re, Hung. Nagyvarad, Ger. Grosswardein, city (1990 pop. 228,956), W Romania, in Crisana-Maramures, near the Hungarian border. It is the marketing and shipping center for a livestock and agricultural region...
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Transylvania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Carpathian Mts. (of which the Transylvanian Alps are a continuation). In the north and west Transylvania borders on Crisana-Maramures and in the SW on the Banat. The Transylvanian plateau, 1,000 to 1,600 ft (305 488 m) high, is drained by...
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