Sighetu Marmatiei

Sighetu Marmatiei is a metropolis in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania. Sighetu Marmatiei is situated alongside the Tisa river on the border with Ukraine, across from the Ukrainian city of Solotvyno. Neighboring groups include: Sarasau, Sapanta, Câmpulung los angeles Tisa, Ocna Sugatag, Giulesti, Vadu Izei, Rona de Jos and Bocicoiu Mare groups in Romania, Bila Cerkva community and the Solotvyno township in Ukraine. The metropolis's name derives from Hungarian call this means that "island in Maramaros".

Inhabited since the Hallstatt period, the populated place lies in the Tisza Valley, an vital path as being the simplest get entry to to the otherwise mountainous, in moderation populated vicinity. After 895 inside the tenth century the location have become a part of Kingdom of Hungary. The first point out of a settlement dates again to the eleventh century, and the city as such was first referred to in 1326. In 1352, it become a unfastened royal city and the capital of Máramaros comitatus, simply outside Transylvania.