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Baia Mare is the metropolitan centre of the northern Romanian Maramureş
culture.
In the middle of the
Maramureş
region on the main course of the Sasar River,.
At an average altitude of 228 metres, the city has an area of 235.73 km˛ and also
contains the following settlements: Blidari, Firiza, Valea Neagră
and Valea Borcutului.
Due to the concentration of economic activities found in the city
and their importance, Baia Mare ranks third in northwest Romania.
The municipality of Baia Mare has a total population of 137,921,
the majority being Romanians. The city is also home to a sizeable
Hungarian community. The ethnic composition of the city is as
follows:
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All of the phone numbers in County
Maramureş start with (262) or (362), depending on whether
the service is through the old state-run operator RomTelecom, or
from one of the newer entrants into the market in Romania.
Dailling to Maramureş, you must
remove any leading zero from the county code portion of the phone
number, so that (0262) becomes (262). Dialling a mobile
number, you do the same, dropping the zero from the (07XX) part of
the number, to make it (7XX). Both landlines and mobiles
have 6 digits following the initial county code.
Who would have guessed that in the capital of the land of wooden
churches and hearth of the the
Maramureşculture, you'd find speedy modern wireless hotspots?
Well, they're here!
Hotel Ambassador, 2 Moldovei Street
in Baia Mare
A rather impressive 4-star hotel with wi-fi,
conference centre, health centre and great restaurant. Visa, MC,
Amex all accepted. +40
(262) 250 242
FAX: +40 (262) 250 238
Oiţa Neagră
(Little Black Sheep Bar & Restraurant), 59 Victoriei
Street in Baia Mare
Fun little spot with bar and restaurant areas
and wi-fi for patrons. +40
(362) 805 619
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Early Baia Mare History
Baia Mare
During the Bronze Age, the region around Baia Mare was the realm of the
Thracians, from whom the Geto-Dacians later descended. It was also part of
the large Dacian state formed by Burebista. The first mention of the
settlement is from 1142, when King Géza II of Hungary settled it with
Transylvanian Saxons.
The name of the settlement was Frauenbach in German
(Asszonypataka in Hungarian, Rivulus Dominarum in Latin), meaning “River
of the Ladies” or “Women's Brook”. The richest documentation, however, is
found in the act of privilege issued by Louis I of Hungary in 1347.
In 1411 the Hungarian king exchanged the city for Belgrade with Djuradj
Branković, prince of Serbia (from 1411 to 1521 Belgrade was a Hungarian
border castle). A document from that year speaks of the Mint in Baia Mare,
one of the oldest and most famous in Transylvania.
In 1446 the mines and domain of Baia Mare become the property of the
Hunyadi family as a token of gratitude for the bravery shown by John
Hunyadi in his battles against the invading Turks. John Hunyadi
commissioned the Saint Stephen cathedral whose Stephen Tower remains a
landmark of the city to this date.
In 1469 King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary bestowed upon the city the
right to develop its defense system by erecting fortified walls and keeps,
strengthened by deep moats and large palisades to keep out the invaders.
Baia Mare thus became an impressive fortress.
In 1567 it was annexed by John Szigmond, prince of Transylvania. The
city was in Szatmár County of the Kingdom of Hungary.
In 1600, as a sign of gratitude for having cancelled several of the
city's debts, the tenant of the local mines, Felician Herbstein, ordered a
coin to be minted in gold, displaying the effigy of Michael the Brave,
voivod of Wallachia. Collectors agree that this is an effigy of the prince
of great numismatic value.
Between the years 1605 and 1606, 1621 and 1629, and 1645 and 1648, the
city and the surrounding county was part of the Principality of
Transylvania. From the 16th century the settlement was officially called
Nagybánya.
In 1703, the legendary outlaw Pintea Viteazul was witness, alongside
Francis II Rákóczi, to the freeing of the city from the hands of the
Austrian Habsburgs during a kurucs war. The year 1889 saw the printing of
the first newspaper in the Romanian language - "Gutinul" - a weekly paper
dealing in social, literary and economic matters. In 1910 the town had
12877 inhabitants: 9992 (77,6%) Hungarians, 2677 (20,8%) Romanians, 175
(1,4%) Germans.
Modern Baia Mare
From 1919/1920 (Treaty of Trianon) to 1940 (Second Vienna Award), Baia
Mare was part of the Kingdom of Romania, and during 1940-1944 part of
Hungary. The Treaty of Paris after the Second World War returned the city
to Romania. From 1952 to 1960 Baia Mare was in the Baia Mare Region, from
1960 to 1968 in the Maramureş Region, and since 1968 has been in Maramureş
County.
On 30 January 2000 a dam encircling a tailings pond at a facility
operated by Aural SA company broke. The result was a spill of 100,000
cubic meters of liquid and suspended waste containing 50 to 100 tonnes of
cyanide.
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A rather impressive 4-star hotel with wi-fi,
conference centre, health centre and great restaurant. Visa, MC,
Amex all accepted. 
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