Remeți ( uk, Ремета; rue, Ремети; hu, Pálosremete; german: Remetz; yi, רעמיק) is a
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
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' ...
,
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 Carpathians, alon ...
,
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 ...
. It is composed of three villages: Piatra, Remeți and Teceu Mic.
The village of Piatra includes the hamlet of Valea lui Francisc, known in German as ''Franzenthal''. This was among the places in Romania where
Zipser Germans The Zipser Germans or Zipsers (german: Zipser, ro, Țipțeri, hu, Cipszer) are a German-speaking (specifically Zipser German-speaking) sub-ethnic group which developed in the Szepes County (german: Zips; sk, Spiš) of Upper Hungary—today mostl ...
settled and spoke their dialect of
Zipserisch.
[Hans Gehl, ''Interethnische Beziehungen im rumänisch-ungarisch-ukrainischen Kontaktraum vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart'' (1999), p. 500: " ..Teceul şi Piatra I (Valea lui Francisc) şi Piatra II (Huţa). ..Piatra sau Huţa - este un cătun care alături de Teceul Mic aparține de Remeți." (Teceu and Piatra I alea lui Franciscand Piatra II uţa Piatra or Huţa - is a hamlet that together with Teceu Mic is part of Remeți.)]
References
Communes in Maramureș County
Localities in Romanian Maramureș
Ukrainian communities in Romania
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