Lăpuș (formerly ''Lăpușul Românesc''; hu, Oláhlápos) is a commune in
Maramureș County
Maramureș County () is a county (județ)
in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare.
Name
In Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian as Мараморо́щина, in German as ''Kreis Marmarosch' ...
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Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Ap ...
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Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
, on the
Lăpuș River, at 12 km from the town of
Târgu Lăpuș
Târgu Lăpuș (; Hungarian: ''Magyarlápos''; german: Laposch) is a town in Maramureș County, northern Transylvania, Romania. It administers thirteen villages: Boiereni (''Boérfalva''), Borcut (''Borkút''), Cufoaia (''Kohópatak''), Dămăcu ...
. It is composed of a single village, Lăpuș. Etymologically, its name appears to come from the Hungarian ''lápos'' (i.e. "flatland, bog, muddy place"), or from Proto-Slavic ''ло̀пӯх'', a widespread name for burdock and other broad-leaf plants. Its existence is attested, under the name of ''Dragosfálva'', in 1293, in an edict through which the land of ''Lápos'' is given by the king of Hungary to one Denis Tomaj, from the nation of the
Patzinaks,
Barons and Other Nobles
/ref> although there are traces of habitation in the area as early as the Bronze Age.
It was a famous anti-communist resistance area after World War II (1949-1953).
It has a beautiful old wooden church, built at the end of the 17th century, that was restored between 2002 and 2004.
Notes
External links
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20121106043842/http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MbX_tPZ4zRQllZKADLIH1A?feat=directlink Panorama of the northern part of Lăpuș* The old wooden church of Lăpuș
The largest Bronze Age construction from South-Eastern Europe discovered by archaeologists in Lăpușul Românesc
Communes in Maramureș County
Localities in Transylvania
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