Budești ( or ''Budfalu'', or ''Budest'') 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 ( ; ; ; ) 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 ...

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 composed of two villages, Budești and Sârbi ( or ''Szerfalu'', or ''Serb'').

Geography

The commune is located in the central part of Maramureș County, northeast of the county seat,

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 subregion of Transylvania. It is situated about from Buchare ...

, and lies on the banks of the river

Cosău The Cosău () is a right tributary of the river Mara 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 th ...

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connects Budești with the town of Cavnic, away, through the . The road features a gravity hill, where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making the 8% downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope.

Churches

The 17th-century wooden church of Saint Nicholas, Budești Josani is one of eight

Wooden Churches of Maramureș The wooden churches of Maramureș in the Maramureș (historical region), Maramureș region of northern Transylvania are a group of almost one hundred Romanian Orthodox Church, Orthodox churches, and occasionally Romanian Church United with Rome, Gr ...

that

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has listed as a

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Demographics

At the 2021 census, the commune had a population of 2,894, of which 97.1% were ethnic

Romanians Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, ...

Natives

* Tit Bud (1846–1917), Romanian Greek Catholic priest and author

References

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