Town in Romania. Sziget (Hun., also Máramarossziget; in Jewish sources Sziget, Siget, or the older Sihot) was the capital of Máramaros county in the Kingdom of Hungary before northern Transylvania became part of Romania after World War I. The town was returned to Hungary briefly between 1940 and 1944.
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Geography. Sighetu Marmației is situated along the Tisa river on the border with Ukraine, across from the Ukrainian town of Solotvyno.
Sighet (known today as Sighetu Marmatiei), a town in Transylvania, was part of Romania following World War I. The town was part of Hungary between 1940 and ...
Named after an important local Jewish family, it was a major centre of the city's Jewish life, housing a school, shops and cultural encounters. The Tarbut ...
The Jewish settlement in Maramures began during the 17th century, when Hungary was still a part of the Ottoman Empire, and intensified during the 18th and 19th ...
Capital for over six centuries of Maramures, Sighet city has vestiges of human Upper Palaeolithic (10,000 BC) , Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages; Solovan ...
Sighetu Marmatiei was home to 12 synagogues and an important center of Hasidism. Starting in early 1930s Jews in Sighet and neighboring areas were regularly ...
In 1556, the Catholic Church in Sighet, together with the majority of believers, was taken over by the Protestants. Later they also opened a confessional ...
Built in 1897, in the small town of Sighet, the prison became after 1945 one of the most dreaded symbols of communist crimes. In 1950, Romania's most ...
From the very beginning, at the end of the 13th century, the town was predominantly inhabited by Hungarians and was the seat and the most important ...
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