Maramureș
Geographical, historical and ethno-cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Maramureș (disambiguation).
Maramureș (Romanian: Maramureș pronounced [maraˈmureʃ] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Мармарощина, romanized: Marmaroshchyna; Hungarian: Máramaros) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpathians, along parts of the upper Tisza River drainage basin; it covers the Maramureș Depression and the surrounding Carpathian mountains.
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Alternatively, the term Maramureș is also used for the Maramureș County of Romania, which contains the southern section of the historical region.