Moisei ( hu, Majszin) 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 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 ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

. Composed of a single village, Moisei, it is one of the oldest communes in

, first attested in 1213. This place is well known for the monastery near the village, founded in 1672. It is the site of the which occurred on October 14, 1944, when 39 Romanians and 3 Jews were killed by the

Hungarian Army The Hungarian Ground Forces ( hu, Magyar Szárazföldi Haderő) is the land branch of the Hungarian Defence Forces, and is responsible for ground activities and troops including artillery, tanks, APCs, IFVs and ground support. Hungary's ground f ...

. A monument to the victims of the massacre was built in Moisei by sculptor

Gheza Vida Gheza or Géza Vida, also known as Grigore ( hu, Vida Géza; February 28, 1913 – May 11, 1980), was a Romanian–Hungarian sculptor, engraver, industrial worker and communist militant, one of the most renowned artists of Maramureș region. The ...

in 1965.

General presentation

Moisei is located in the southeastern part of

, at 136 km from

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 ...

, the county seat, at 5 km from

Borșa Borșa (; Hungarian: ''Borsa'', German: ''Borscha'', yi, בורשא ''Borsha'') is a town in eastern Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania, in the valley of the river Vișeu and near the Prislop Pass. Linking Transylvania to Bukovina, Prislop ...

and at 7 km from

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� ...

. The village is located mainly on the river

Vișeu The Vișeu ( hu, Visó) in northern Romania is a left tributary of the river Tisza. Its source is in the Rodna Mountains. It passes through the following villages, communes and cities: Borșa (city), Moisei (commune), Vișeu de Sus (city), Vișeu ...

’s course, on Dragoș Spring and on Black Spring (Black Valley). Together, these waterways constitute the main landscape of the village, along with the houses that are built on hills up to 800 m high. Râul Vișeu, prin Moisei

The commune is situated in the relief unit called Maramureș Hollow, under the Vișeu corridor. Practically, Moisei is placed at the bottom of Rodnei Mountains, having Pietrosu mountain on its upper side and the Maramureș Mountains to the north. Passage from Lunca Vișeului to the mountain area is made naturally from hills with heights between 600 and 800 m. The commune has two main roads: DN 17 and DN 18. The total length of the roads and lanes is 44.7 km, of which 15 km are national roads. Moisei also has a ''

Căile Ferate Române Căile Ferate Române (; abbreviated as the CFR) is the state railway carrier of Romania. As of 2014, the railway network of Romania consists of , of which (37.4%) are electrified. The total track length is , of which (38.5%) are electrifie ...

'' train station.Moisei, vatră de cultură, tradiții și spiritualitate/ hearth of culture, traditions and spirituality/ foyer de la culture, des traditions et de la spiritualite, Publicație culturală apărută cu spijinul Administrației Fondului Cultural Național (AFCN), Moisei, 2011

References

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