Dragomirești ( hu, Dragomérfalva or ''Dragomérfalu''; yi, דראגאמירעשט or ''Dragomiresht''; german: Dragomir ) is a town in

Maramureș County Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian language, Ukrainian as Мараморо́щ� ...

Maramureș Maramureș or Marmaroshchyna ( ro, Maramureș ; uk, Мармарощина, Marmaroshchyna; hu, Máramaros) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpath ...

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. It was declared a town in 2004.

Geography

The town lies at the foot of the

Țibleș Mountains The Țibleș Mountains (, hu, Cibles or ''Széples'') are a volcanic mountain range located in Maramureș County, in northern Romania. They belong to the Vihorlat-Gutin Area of the Inner Eastern Carpathians. They are located at the southern bo ...

, on the banks of the

Iza River The Iza is a left tributary of the river Tisa in northern Romania. Its source is in the Rodna Mountains. It flows into the Tisa near the city Sighetu Marmației. It passes through the communes Săcel, Săliștea de Sus, Dragomirești, Bogdan V ...

and its tributary, the Baicu. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, on the border with

Bistrița-Năsăud County Bistrița-Năsăud () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Bistrița. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as ''Beszterce-Naszód megye'', and in German language, German as ''Kreis Bistritz-N ...

, about east of the county seat,

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș ...

History

Among the first Jews who settled in Dragomirești was R. Shemuel Stern of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, in 1780. He was followed by other

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from Galicia who worked in his lumber mills. By 1920, there were 756 Jews, accounting for 28% of the population. After the 1940

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granted

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, local Jews aged 20 to 40 were drafted into labor battalions in Ukraine. On April 15, 1944, 2000 Jews, including from nearby villages, were ghettoized. A month later, they were made to go to

Vișeu de Sus Vișeu de Sus (; german: Oberwischau; hu, Felsővisó; ; , Ober Vishoi, Ojberwischo) is a town in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania, located at the confluence of the rivers Vișeu and Vaser. It administers one village, Vișeu de Mijloc (''K� ...

rail station: males aged 12 to 60 on foot; women, children and elderly men in wagons. From Vișeu, trains took them to

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.Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), ''The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J'', p. 328.

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, 2001,

Demographics

At the 2011 census, 99.5% of the population were

ethnic Romanians The Romanians ( ro, români, ; dated exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group. Sharing a common Culture of Romania, Romanian culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, and speaking the Romanian language, they l ...

and 0.4%

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.Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune
, National Institute of Statistics; accessed September 3, 2015 94.8% were

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and 4.9%

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Natives

* Vasile Bizău (b. 1969), Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. *

János Bud Noble János Bud de BudfalvaAlexandru FILIPAȘCU, ''Enciclopedia familiilor nobile maramureșene de origine română/ The encyclopedia of noble families of a romanian origin in Maramureș county'', by Ion and Livia Piso, Ed. Eikon, 2015, p.150-1 ...

(1880–1950), Hungarian politician, Minister of Finance in 1924–1928.

References

Populated places in Maramureș County Localities in Romanian Maramureș Towns in Romania {{Maramureş-geo-stub