Baia Mare ( ,
; ; ; ) is a
city
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along the
Săsar River, in northwestern
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
; it is the capital of
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 ...
. The city lies in the region of
Maramureș
( ; ; ; ) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpathians, along parts of the upper Tisza River drainage basin; it covers the Maramureș Depression and the ...
, a subregion of
Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
. It is situated about from
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
, from the border with
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
, and from the border with
Ukraine
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.
Located south of the and
Gutâi mountains, Baia Mare had a population of 108,759 at the
2021 census, and a
metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport network ...
home to about 200,000 residents. The city administers four villages: Blidari (''Kőbánya''), Firiza (''Felsőfernezely''), Valea Borcutului (''Borpatak''), and Valea Neagră (''Feketepatak''). Baia Mare was named the Romanian Youth Capital from 2 May 2018 to 1 May 2019.
Baia Mare is the greenest municipality in Romania, with 133 square meters of green space for each inhabitant.
History
Prehistory
The city's development on the middle course of
Săsar River, in the middle of a
plateau
In geology and physical geography, a plateau (; ; : plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. ...
with a warm Mediterranean-like climate, has facilitated living conditions since the
Palaeolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( years ago) ( ), also called the Old Stone Age (), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehist ...
.
Ancient times
During the
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...
the region was inhabited by
Thracian
The Thracians (; ; ) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied the area that today is shared between north-eastern Greece, ...
tribes. Later, it was included in the
Dacian Kingdom
Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus r ...
formed by the King
Burebista
Burebista () was the king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/61BC to 45/44BC. He was the first king who successfully unified the tribes of the Dacian kingdom, which comprised the area located between the Danube, Tisza, and Dniester rivers, ...
when the mining exploration began, as the area is rich in
gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...
and
silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...
.
Middle Ages
Baia Mare is first mentioned in written documents released by
Charles I of Hungary
Charles I, also known as Charles Robert (; ; ; 128816 July 1342), was King of Hungary and Croatia in the union with Hungary, Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the only son of Charles Martel of A ...
in 1328 under the name of ''Rivulus Dominarum'' (). In 1347 the town was identified in documents by
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
as an important
medieval
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ...
town with a prosperous
mining industry
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...
. Its rules of organisation were characteristic of the "free towns" of that time. In 1411 the town and its surrounding areas, including the mines, were transferred into the property of the
Hunyadi family
The House of Hunyadi was one of the most powerful noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary during the 15th century. A member of the family, Matthias Corvinus, was King of Hungary from 1458 until 1490, King of Bohemia (ruling in Moravia, Low ...
by
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, King of Hungary (later also Holy Roman Emperor), who recognised
Janos Hunyadi
John Hunyadi (; ; ; ; ; – 11 August 1456) was a leading Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as regent of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1446 to 1453, under the minor Ladislaus V.
According to most con ...
's contribution to stop the
Turkish
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** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire
* The w ...
invasion of Europe.
The town went into a period of prosperity, during which the St. Stephen Cathedral was built. Today the cathedral tower is one of the best-known of the town's historic landmarks (see
Stephen's Tower). The first
school
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, named ''Schola Rivulina'', was opened in Baia Mare in 1547 by the
Reformed Church
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Christian, Presbyterian, ...
following the
Protestant Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and ...
.
Modern period

In 1703
Pintea Viteazul and his band managed to free the town for a short period of time from the
German Imperial rule, under which it belonged the royal treasury. Since then Pintea is considered an important figure in the town's history, representing the idea of freedom. The Budești Church has Pintea's chain mail shirt and a helmet, reportedly worn by him in his battles. The Museum of Baia Mare displays his weapons and their harness.
In 1748 the city's
mining industry
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a la ...
made a leap forward when the
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n authorities created the headquarters of "Superior Mining".
In the late nineteenth century,
Simon Hollósy
Simon Hollósy (2 February 1857 – 8 May 1918) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.
Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more im ...
,
István Réti
István Réti (26 December 1872 – 17 January 1945) was a Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony, located in what is present-day Baia Mare ...
,
János Thorma
János Thorma (24 April 1870 – 5 December 1937) was a Hungarian painter. A representative figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, which started in 1896, in Nagybánya, Austria-Hungary (today Baia Mare, Romania), he moved through different ...
,
Béla Iványi-Grünwald
Béla Iványi-Grünwald (6 May 1867 – 24 September 1940) was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony.
Life
Born in Som, Iványi-Grünwald began his artistic ...
, and
Károly Ferenczy
Károly Ferenczy (February 8, 1862 – March 18, 1917) was a Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.Ilona Sármány-Parsons"Károly Ferenczy" Oxford Art Online
He was among several artists who went to Munich for ...
were among numerous young Hungarians who left the area to study the arts in
Munich
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, as Hungary lacked an academy of art in those times.
[''Munich in Hungarian, Hungarian Artists in Munich 1850-1914''](_blank)
, 2 October 2009 - Jan 2010, Hungarian National Gallery Simon Hollósy, the young Hungarian painter, was teaching in his studio new western European techniques.
Some of those young painters decided to settle down together in Baia Mare, then called Nagybánya, to work on art. They persuaded Hollósy to join them and founded the
Nagybánya artists' colony
The Nagybánya artists' colony was an art colony in Nagybánya, a town in eastern Hungary that became Baia Mare in Romania after World War I. The colony started as a summer retreat for artists, mainly painters from Simon Hollósy's ''szabadiskola' ...
, working on naturalism and ''
plein air
''En plein air'' (; French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors.
This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look. The theory of 'En plein air' painting is c ...
'' painting. The artists' colony became known later on for influencing the development of twentieth-century Hungarian and Romanian art.
Works by each of these important painters is held by the
Hungarian National Gallery
The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, ), was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the w ...
in Budapest, which in 2009 opened the exhibit
''Munich in Hungarian, Hungarian Artists in Munich 1850-1914'' 2 Oct 2009 - Jan 2010. In addition, in 1966 the museum held a major exhibition of their work: ''The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya''.
[Valerie Majoros, "Lajos Tihanyi and his friends in the Paris of the nineteen-thirties"](_blank)
, ''French Cultural Studies'', 2000, Vol. 11:387, Footnote, p. 388, Sage Publications, accessed 30 January 2013
Following
World War I
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, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consist ...
was dissolved, and in 1920, Baia Mare officially became part of the
Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania () was a constitutional monarchy that existed from with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King of Romania, King Carol I of Romania, Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian royal family), until 1947 wit ...
. It became part of Hungary again in 1940 by the
Second Vienna Award
The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Cri ...
, until the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. Near the end of that period, the city hosted the
Baia Mare ghetto The Baia Mare ghetto was one of the List of Nazi-era ghettos, Nazi-era ghettos for European Jews during World War II. It was located in the city of Baia Mare () in Maramureș County, Transylvania, now part of Romania but administered as part of Szat ...
. After the war, the city was returned to Romania. Shortly after World War II in postwar development, the town of Baia Mare started to grow both in population and inhabited area. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new
town centre
A town centre is the commerce, commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town. Town centres are traditionally associated with shopping or retail. They are also the centre of communications with major public transport hubs such as train ...
was developed with
modern architecture
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buildings and structures.
Cyanide spill
On 30 January 2000,
Baia Mare was the site of what has been considered
Europe's worst ecological disaster since
Chernobyl
Chernobyl, officially called Chornobyl, is a partially abandoned city in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, to the north of Kyiv and to the southwest of Gomel in neighbouring Belarus. ...
, which took place at gold mining company Aurul, a joint-venture of the Australian company Esmeralda Exploration and the Romanian government.
The tailing dam at the gold processing plant broke and 70 tons of toxic
cyanide
In chemistry, cyanide () is an inorganic chemical compound that contains a functional group. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
Ionic cyanides contain the cyanide anion . This a ...
and
heavy metal-laced waste water escaped into the River
Tisza
The Tisza, Tysa or Tisa (see below) is one of the major rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. It was once called "the most Hungarian river" because it used to flow entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national bo ...
and into Hungary, making its way into the Danube and affecting Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
More than 1,400 tons of fish, numerous eagles, storks and otters died.
Scientists fear the release may have led to the ultimate extinction of at least five fish species. Despite the accident's happening in Romania, much of the adverse effects were suffered in Hungary. The accident prompted Hungary to ban the use of cyanide in gold processing and it has urged the rest of Europe to do the same.
Since 2013, local
Romanian
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**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
(Romani) businessman
Daniel Boldor
Daniel Boldor (born Daniel Cristian Boldor) is a businessman from Baia Mare, Romania and CEO of Exiteco SRL, accused of fraud and forgery after his company sold thousands of tons of mining sludge to international metal traders as "gold r copperc ...
has been operating out of the CUPROM mine and refinery outside of Baia Mare, selling what he claims are under-extracted
Ore concentrate
Ore concentrate, dressed ore or simply concentrate is the product generally produced by metal ore mines. The raw ore is usually ground finely in various comminution operations and gangue (waste) is removed, thus concentrating the metal component. ...
shipments to international metal traders in China, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States.
Based on claims that the material was, in fact, worthless
mining sludge Mining sludge is the waste product of alluvial mining, and in particular hydraulic sluicing. It has been particularly prominent in gold fields in Australia and California in the nineteenth century.
In the 1840s in California and 1850s in Australian ...
, the
public prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law. The prosecution is the legal party responsible ...
's office in
Constanța
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filed an indictment against Boldor in June 2018 on charges of money laundering, customs fraud, document forgery, the collection and transport of hazardous waste, and tax evasion.
Roma wall
In 2011, the local administration built a 1.8m-tall wall between the road Strada Horea and an area of social housing that houses 1000 Roma people into one-room apartments, some without water or electricity.
According to the mayor, this wall was designed to "prevent traffic accidents",
while pro-democracy organizations say it amounts to a "
roma wall" and "institutionalized racism".
In 2011, the national anti-discrimination council fined mayor
Cătălin Cherecheș for the building of the wall and ordered it to be pulled down.
The wall nevertheless proved popular with the majority population and the mayor was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2012.
Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Baia Mare was granted to the city by the
Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
in the late 1990s, early 2000s, some years after the communist symbols established in 1968 were de facto out of use starting
1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
.
The
shield
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is party per pale. In
dexter
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,
gules
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Gules is portrayed in heraldic hatch ...
a miner in a
mine
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*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
M ...
argent
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, in
sinister
Sinister commonly refers to:
* Evil
* Ominous
Sinister may also refer to:
Left side
* Sinister, Latin for the direction "left"
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,
azure
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* ...
a church tower
or. The shield is topped by a
mural crown
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with seven towers.
The miner refers to the main local economical activity. The church tower refers to the local cultural/ecclesiastical tradition. The crest shows the city's status as a
county
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seat.
Geography
The city is situated in the vicinity of the
Gutâi and mountains. Altitudes reach in some peaks. The area is famous for its outstanding landscapes, and the mountains are easily accessible from the city, notable routes being: Igniș (1,307 m), Mogoșa (1,246 m), Gutâi (1,443 m), Creasta Cocoșului (1,450 m), Piatra Șoimului (839 m), Pleștioara (803 m), Dealul Bulat (683 m), Murgau (633 m), Dealul Crucii (500 m), etc.
The city is situated in the Baia Mare valley and is encircled on all sides by hills and mountains, which makes the climate in the city milder than the rest of the surrounding area. Proof of this is that the outskirts of Baia Mare are the only areas where you can find chestnut trees that usually need
Mediterranean
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climate to grow. This is the northernmost reach of the
chestnut tree
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Description
C ...
. However, abrupt temperature changes take place and, during the winters, the temperatures may occasionally drop below -20 degrees Celsius.
The summers are mild, cooler than in the rest of the country. The precipitations in this area are quite high, due to the mountains in the north and east which do not allow the air masses to pass beyond the region's limits, the average rainfall being almost 1,000 mm/year. The city of Baia Mare is the most populous of northern Romanian cities (
Satu Mare
Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania ...
,
Suceava
Suceava () is a Municipiu, city in northeastern Romania. The seat of Suceava County, it is situated in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Bukovina and Western Moldavia, Moldavia, northeastern Romania. It is the largest urban ...
, and
Botoșani
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Origin of the ...
), with a population of approximately 109,000. It also has a high level of culture and education, being home to theatres, schools, museums and art galleries.
Not far from the city there are a few very important natural reservations, among them Creasta Cocoșului, Cheile Tătărului, Lacul Albastru etc. Because of its privileged location in the
Eastern Carpathian Mountains
Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system.
Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya S ...
it is considered one of the most picturesque cities in
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
.
Demographics

At the
2021 census, Baia Mare had a population of 108,759. At the
2011 census, the city had a population of 123,738, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.
The ethnic composition of the city is as follows:
*
Romanian
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**Romanian language, a Romance language
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: (84.11%)
*
Hungarian: (12.25%)
*
Roma
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* Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas.
* Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun
* Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paul ...
: (2.76%)
*
Germans
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(i.e.
Zipser Germans
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): (0.24%)
*
Ukrainian: (0.16%)
*
Jew
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s: (0.02%)
and 642 others, including
Greeks
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,
Turks
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* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey
* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic lang ...
,
Italians
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,
Lipovans
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,
Poles
Pole or poles may refer to:
People
*Poles (people), another term for Polish people, from the country of Poland
* Pole (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Pole (musician) (Stefan Betke, born 1967), German electronic music artist
...
, and
Slovaks
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.
Baia Mare metropolitan area
Baia Mare Metropolitan Area (BMMA) is located in northwestern Romania and consists of Baia Mare City (Maramureș County seat) and localities found within a distance of .
For the 2014–2020 time period, the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area was slated ...
has a population of 215,932, an area of , and includes the municipality of Baia Mare, five towns (
Baia Sprie
Baia Sprie (; , ) is a town in Maramureș County, northern Romania. Baia Sprie is situated at a distance of from Baia Mare and belongs to the Baia Mare metropolitan area.
The town administers three villages: Chiuzbaia (''Kisbánya''), Satu Nou ...
,
Cavnic,
Seini
Seini (German language, German: ''Leuchtenburg''; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Szinérváralja'') is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. It administers two villages, Săbișa (''Kissebespatak'') and Viile Apei (''Apahegy''). It officially b ...
,
Șomcuta Mare
Șomcuta Mare (; ) is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. The town administers seven villages: Buciumi (''Törökfalu''), Buteasa (''Bucsonfalva''), Ciolt (''Csolt''), Codru Butesii (''Kodrulytelep''), Finteușu Mare (''Nagyfentős''), Hovrila ( ...
, and
Tăuții-Măgherăuș
Tăuții-Măgherăuș () is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. The town administers six villages: Băița (''Láposbánya''), Bozânta Mare (''Nagybozinta''), Bușag (''Buság''), Merișor, Nistru (''Miszbánya''), and Ulmoasa (''Szilas''). Tă ...
), and 13 communes (
Cernești
Cernești () is a commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania: It is composed of seven villages: Brebeni (''Brébfalva''), Cernești, Ciocotiș (''Csókás''), Fânațe (''Kővárfonác''), Izvoarele (''Balázsszeg''), Măgureni (''Nagyhe ...
,
Cicârlău
Cicârlău () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Bârgău (''Kissikárló''), Cicârlău, Handalu Ilbei (''Ilobabánya''), and Ilba (''Iloba'').
Geography
The commune belongs to the Baia Mare metropoli ...
,
Coaș
Coas is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Coaș and Întrerâuri. These were part of Săcălășeni
Săcălășeni () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is made up of three villages: Coruia (''K ...
,
Coltău
Coltău () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Cătălina (''Koltókatalin'') and Coltău. Formerly independent, the villages were part of Săcălășeni Commune from 1968 to 2004, when they were split off t ...
,
Copalnic-Mănăștur
Copalnic-Mănăștur () is a Commune in Romania, commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of twelve villages: Berința (''Kővárberence''), Cărpiniș (''Kővárgyertyános''), Copalnic (''Szurdukkápolnok''), Copalnic-D ...
,
Dumbrăvița,
Groși
Groși () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Groși, Ocoliș (''Feketefalu''), and Satu Nou de Jos (''Alsóújfalu'').
The commune lies on the banks of the Lăpuș River. It is located in the western p ...
,
Mireșu Mare
Mireșu Mare () is a commune in Maramureș County, northwestern Romania. It is located near Ulmeni, on the right, eastern bank of the river Someș. The commune is composed of seven villages: Dăneștii Chioarului (''Dánfalva''), Iadăra (''Jede ...
,
Recea,
Remetea Chioarului
Remetea Chioarului () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to t ...
,
Satulung
Satulung ( Hungarian: ''Kővárhosszúfalu''; German: ''Langendorf'') is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. Its name, translated in English, means "the long village". It is composed of seven villages: Arieșu de Pădure (''Erdőaranyos''), ...
,
Săcălășeni
Săcălășeni () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is made up of three villages: Coruia (''Karuly''), Culcea (''Kővárkölcse''), and Săcălășeni. From 1968 to 2004, it also included four other villages. These were then split off ...
, and
Valea Chioarului
Valea Chioarului () is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Curtuiușu Mare (''Nagykörtvélyes''), Durușa (''Durusa''), Fericea (''Szamosfericse''), Mesteacăn (''Kisnyíres''), Valea Chioarului, and Vărai ( ...
).
Historical population
In 1912, out of the total population of 12,877 people, 9,992 were Hungarians (including Jews), 2,677 Romanians, and 175 Germans (i.e.,
Zipser Germans
The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers (, , , ) are a German-speaking (more specifically Zipser German-speaking as native dialect) sub-ethnic group in Central- Eastern Europe and national minority in both Slovakia and Roma ...
).
In 1920, of the 12,780 inhabitants, 5,005 were Romanians, 4,652 Hungarians, 1,792 Jews, 1,232 Germans, and 99 of other ethnicities. Many inhabitants declared themselves as Hungarian-speakers during previous censuses, despite not being ethnic Hungarians
Before the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, Baia Mare had a community of more than 1,000
Jews
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...
. In 1944, most of the Jews were deported by the Hungarian occupation authorities to Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Most of the few survivors emigrated from the area. , 32 Jews lived in the city. Along with
Rădăuți
Rădăuți (; ; ; ; , ''Radivtsi''; ''Radevits''; ) is a town in Suceava County, north-eastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. According to the 2021 census, Rădăuți is the second largest urban settlement in the ...
,
Gura Humorului
Gura Humorului (; Hebrew and Yiddish: גורה חומורולוי - ''Gure Humuruluei'' or גורא הומאָרא - ''Gura Humora''; German and Polish: ''Gura Humora'') is a town in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the hi ...
and others, Baia Mare had a Jewish
shtetl
or ( ; , ; Grammatical number#Overview, pl. ''shtetelekh'') is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish populations which Eastern European Jewry, existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The t ...
, or settlement. The
synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
dates from 1885.
Politics
The Baia Mare Municipal Council, elected at the
2012 local elections, had the following political composition:
The Baia Mare Municipal Council, elected at the
2016 local elections, had the following political composition:
The Baia Mare Municipal Council, renewed at the
2020 local elections, consists of 23 counsellors and has the following political composition:
Economy
The economic activity of Baia Mare has been based on the mining activities located in the surrounding areas. However, after the 1989 Revolution and industrial changes, such mining declined considerably. They have been replaced with several activities which have improved the city's economy in recent years. Baia Mare has become one of the most economically evolved cities in the region. As a result, several supermarkets have been built in the city as well as one of the biggest shopping malls in over radius. The largest sofa manufacturing plant in Eastern Europe, ''Italsofa'', is located near the Baia Mare city highway ring.
Aramis Invest is the largest furniture manufacturer and exporter in Romania. In 2014, it was the largest supplier on the local market of the Swedish company
IKEA
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IKEA is owned and operated by a series of not-for-profit an ...
.
The city has a mainline (and branch) passenger and freight railway service provided by ''CFR'', the national railway carrier.
Culture

In Baia Mare there is one library (with a few branches), 6 museums, one planetarium and observatory, 2 theaters, 2 cultural centers, one art school and one popular university.
*The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Baia Mare is the second largest cathedral in
Romania
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after the
People's Salvation Cathedral
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in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
.
*Planetarium and astronomical observatory Baia Mare - starting from March 20, 2015, modern planetarium equipment was put into use - the Zeiss Skymaster ZKP4 star projector - digitally assisted opto-mechanical projector, using LED technology, with clarity of the star field, an improvement over the old ZKP1 projector.
*Arts center Baia Mare - Art Museum Ethnography and folk art Museum Baia Mare
*Museum of Mineralogy Baia Mare - the museum houses a regional mineralogical collection many of the exhibits being considered world unique and heritage values.
*
Nagybánya artists' colony
The Nagybánya artists' colony was an art colony in Nagybánya, a town in eastern Hungary that became Baia Mare in Romania after World War I. The colony started as a summer retreat for artists, mainly painters from Simon Hollósy's ''szabadiskola' ...
- The colony started as a summer retreat for artists, mainly painters from
Simon Hollósy
Simon Hollósy (2 February 1857 – 8 May 1918) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.
Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more im ...
's ''szabadiskola'' (Free School) in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
.
*Puppet Theater Baia Mare was founded on June 1, 1956, under the patronage of the Baia Mare Dramatic Theatre.
*County Museum of History and Archeology Baia Mare
*Municipal Theater Baia Mare - the first theater troupe (semi-professional) was established in 1796, under the direction of János Nagy. On 30 December 1952, a State Theater (later named "Dramatic", and currently "Municipal") was established, initially based in the "Popular" cinema hall.
*"Petre Dulfu" County Library is a public library with seven branches and is named after the philologist
Petre Dulfu
Petre Dulfu (10 March 1856 – 31 October 1953) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet, translator and playwright.
Born in Tohat, Sălaj County, his parents were Nichifor Dulfu and his wife Agapia (''née'' Bran), members of the rural i ...
.
*
Stephen's Tower - Over 40 metres (130 ft) high and built in a
neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...
style, it is a symbol of the city.
Natives
Sportsmen
*
Eugen Apjok
Eugen Apjok (born 15 April 1972) is a former Romanian rugby union player and a current coach being at the healm of CSM Baia Mare (rugby), Baia Mare. He played as a Fly-half (rugby union), fly-half. In 2016 he was voted the best rugby head coach in ...
*
Camelia Balint-Hotea
Camelia Hotea (née Balint; born 27 October 1984) is a Romanian retired handballer who last played Minaur Baia Mare.
She was made Honorary Citizen of Baia Mare in 2007.
Achievements
* EHF Challenge Cup:
**''Finalist'': 2003
* EHF Cup:
**''Se ...
*
Alin Bota
*
Daniel Brata
Daniel Brata (born 29 December 1984) is a Romanian judoka
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本� ...
*
Cristian Bud
Cristian Ionuț Bud (; born 26 June 1985) is a Romanian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for CS Făurei.
Career
Early years
In 2004, Bud began his career with his home ...
*
Romulus Buia
Romulus "Romică" Buia (born 15 June 1970 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian former football player and currently a manager. He was nicknamed "Figo from Berceni" by the fans of Rocar București which played the home games on the "Drumul Găzarului" fie ...
*
Claudiu Bumba
Claudiu Vasile Bumba (born 5 January 1994) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Győr.
He started out at as a senior at Baia Mare teams FC and FCMU, before moving ...
*
Rodica Dunca
Rodica Dunca (later ''Kőszegi'', born 16 May 1965) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by t ...
*
Melinda Geiger
Melinda Anamaria Geiger (born 28 March 1987) is a Romanian handball player who is playing for CS Gloria 2018 Bistrița-Năsăud and the Romanian national team.
Geiger announced her retirement in February 2019 at the age of 31 citing recurring ...
*
Vasile Gergely
*
Ioan Gherghel
Ioan Ştefan Gherghel (born August 8, 1978 in Baia Mare, Maramureş, Romania) is an Olympic butterfly swimmer from Romania. He swam for Romania at three consecutive Olympics: 2000, 2004 and 2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Yea ...
*
Ovidiu Hoban
Ovidiu Ștefan Hoban (born 27 December 1982) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who played as a defensive midfielder, currently assistant coach at Liga I club CFR Cluj.
International career
Hoban made his internatio ...
*
Ákos Koller
Ákos Koller (born 4 September 1974 in Baia Mare
Baia Mare ( , ; ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city along the Săsar, Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș, a subregio ...
*
Noemi Lung
Noemi Lung Zaharia (born May 16, 1968) is a retired butterfly, freestyle and medley swimmer from Romania, who won two individual medley medals at the 1988 Olympics. A year before she collected a record five gold medals at the 1987 Summer Universi ...
*
Teodora Măgurean
*
Darius Makaria
Darius Cătălin Makaria (born 2 February 1993) is a Romanian handballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Cavigal Nice Handball in the France ProLigue.
Achievements
*Campionat National Junior (men's handball), Junior National Championship :
**Gol ...
*
Vasile Miriuță
Vasile Miriuță (born 19 September 1968) is a professional football manager and former player, currently in charge of Liga I club Politehnica Iaşi.
Born in Romania, the midfielder played nine matches for the Hungary national team, in which ...
*
Bogdan Pereș
*
Daniel Sabou
Dănuț Sabou (born 4 November 1979 in Baia Mare) is a former Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hunga ...
*
Alexandru Terheș
*
Raluca Udroiu
Raluca Antonia Udroiu (born 12 May 1982 in Baia Mare, Maramureş, Romania) is an international backstroke swimmer from Romania, who represented her native country at the Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Au ...
*
Ciprian Vasilache
Ciprian Vasilache (born 14 September 1983) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Vasilache made his début in Liga I with Gloria Bistrița, in 2002. Between January 2004 and January 2007 he played for Rapid B ...
Singers and composers
*
Dora Cojocaru - composer and musicologist
*
Gheorghe Costin
Gheorghe Costin (born 1 May 1955 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian conductor and composer.
A disciple of Constantin Bugeanu in Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovi� ...
- conductor and composer
*
Adrian Sina- singer and composer
*
Paula Seling
Paula Seling (; born 25 December 1978) is a Romanian singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. She has released more than thirteen albums (including three Christmas albums) and over twenty singles, which include two top-te ...
- singer and composer
*
AMI (Romanian singer)
Andreea Ioana Moldovan (born 28 September 1989), professionally known as AMI, is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She rose to fame following her 2012 single "Trumpet Lights" with producer David Deejay.
Life and career
AMI was born on 28 Sep ...
- singer and composer
Painters
*
Adrian Ghenie
Adrian Ghenie (; born 13 August 1977 in Baia Mare) is a Contemporary art, contemporary Romanian painter, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Early life and education
The son of a dentist, he attended the Gheorghe Șincai National College (B ...
*
István Réti
István Réti (26 December 1872 – 17 January 1945) was a Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony, located in what is present-day Baia Mare ...
Others
*
Csaba Ferenc Asztalos - politician
*
Mihai Morar
Mihai Ionuț Morar (born 14 October 1981 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian TV presenter, editor and DJ.
Morar hosts the morning show ''Radio Zu'', with Daniel Buzdugan, and show ''Răi da' Buni'' on Antena 2 (Romania), Antena 2. In 2011 he was part of ...
- entertainment journalist
*
Lucian Mureșan
Lucian Mureșan (born 23 May 1931) is a Romanian prelate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church who has been the first Major Archbishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, Greek Catholic Archdiocese of ...
- Cardinal, Major Archbishop of Făgăraș-Alba Iulia
*
László Németh
László Németh (18 April 1901 – 3 March 1975) was a Hungary, Hungarian writer, dramatist and essayist.
Early life
He was born in Baia Mare, Nagybánya, the son of József Németh (1873–1946) and Vilma Gaál (1879–1957). Over the ...
- writer
Residents
Writers, poets
*
Augustin Buzura
Augustin Buzura (; September 22, 1938 – July 10, 2017) was a Romanian novelist and short story writer, also known as a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. A list of members of the Romanian Academy, member of the Romanian Academy, he has be ...
- novelist,
Romanian literature
Romanian literature () is the entirety of literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language or by any authors native to Romania.
Early Romanian literature inc ...
*
Mária Földes
Mária Földes (5 September 1925 – 21 August 1976) was a Hungarian-Romanian playwright. After surviving several Nazi concentration camps during 1944–1945 in World War II, including Auschwitz, she returned to Romania, where she studied drama ...
- Romanian born Jewish-Hungarian
playwright
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Readin ...
*
Florin Tătaru
Florin-Cristian Tătaru (born December 5, 1967) is a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has represented Maramureș County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Deputi ...
- Romanian politician
*
Igor Ursenco -
Romanian
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*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
fiction writer, poet, and
culturologist
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Education
In Baia Mare there are 23 schools, 34 kindergartens and 18 highschools. Higher education is represented by:
*
Northern University
*Bogdan Vodă University from Baia Mare
*Vatra University of Arts from Baia Mare
*
Vasile Goldiș Western University Baia Mare
*
Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Baia Mare extension
*Carol Davila Post-secondary School of Health
National highschools from Baia Mare:
*
Gheorghe Șincai National College
*Emil Racoviță Theoretical Highschool
*
Vasile Lucaciu National College
*Mihai Eminescu National College
*Arts College
*"Nicolae Titulescu" Economics College
*Highschool of Sports
*"George Barițiu" Technical College
*"Anghel Saligny" Technical College
*"C.D. Nenițescu" Technical College
*"Németh László" Theoretical Highschool
Health
There are three state hospitals in Baia Mare:
*Dr. Constantin Opriș" Emergency County Hospitall, was built between 1966-1971 and inaugurated in January 1972
*Infectious Diseases and Psychiatry Hospital, established in March 1981
*Dr. Nicolae Rușdea Pulmonary Hospital
Twin towns – sister cities
Baia Mare is
twinned with:
*
Bielsko-Biała
Bielsko-Biała (; ; , ; ) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of approximately 166,765 as of December 2022, making it the List of cities and towns in Poland#Largest cities and towns by population, 22nd largest city in Poland, and an a ...
, Poland (2001)
*
Combs-la-Ville
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, France (2009)
*
Hódmezővásárhely
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, Hungary (2001)
*
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood ...
, United States (2001)
*
Kitwe
Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development (after Lusaka and Ndola) and second largest city in terms of size and population (after Lusaka) in Zambia. With a population of 517,543 (''2010 census provisional'') Kitwe is ...
, Zambia (1972)
*
Nyíregyháza
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, Hungary (2001)
*
Serino
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Famous for its very clean water source, Serino is from Naples, from Salerno, from Avellino and from Rome. Serino is known for its production of chestnuts a ...
, Italy (2003)
*
Szolnok
Szolnok (; also known by #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian ...
, Hungary (1990)
*
Wels
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, Austria (2000)
Structures
*Chimney of
Phoenix Copper Smelter, height: 351.5 metres, which is the tallest structure in Romania.
References
External links
Official websiteUniversity of Baia MarePhotos of the city and its surroundingsin the dedicated
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group
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