Founded in the 12th century by Saxon immigrants, it was first known as Neustadt. The first document mentioning the name Baia Mare dates from 1329. Until 1948 it was the see of a bishop of an Eastern-rite church in communion with Rome.
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One of the 13 central ghettos of northern Transylvania was established in Baia Mare, and the 5,917 Jews who had been confined there were deported on 31 May and ...
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BAIA-MARE (Hg. Nagybánya), mining and industrial town in Transylvania, Romania, within Hungary until 1918 and between 1940 and 1944.