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The county has a surface of 4,418 km² and a population of 366,270 (density 83/km²). The ethnic composition is:
Romanians – 58.8%
Hungarians – 35.2%
Romas – 3.7%
Germans – 1.7%
Ukrainians, Slovaks, other
Geography is defined by the Pannonian Plain (which in Romania is called the "Western Romanian Plain") for most of the county, with some small mountains in north.
Architecture is almost identical with the one from neighbour Hungary, where a part of the historical Szatmár Comitatus remained.
Satu Mare / Szatmárnémeti / Sathmar - the capital city, has a population of 102,400 (Romanians: 59%, Hungarians: 37.6%, Roma: 1.3%, Germans: 1.1% etc). The city was founded around the year 1000 with Teutonic (German) colonists. Since 13th century was a free royal city.
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Bistrița Monastery - established in 1407, the present church ias from 1554 while the gate tower and adjoined chapel are from 1498. Here is buried Alexander the Kind, ruler of Moldavia between 1401 - 1433. There are many precious old objects, including an icon from a Byzantine emperor.
Agapia Monastery - established in 1642, the main church dates from that year while the many dependencies are mostly from 19th century. Is one of the biggest Christian monasteries in the world, with over 300 nuns living here. The monastery look like a village, with houses surrounding the fortress.
Sihla Skete - situated deep in the prehistorical forests of Stânișoara Mountains, in an area now part of the Vânători - Neamț Nature Park. In 17th century, here lived in a cave a hermit woman which was discovered little before death and started to be venerated as a saint. In 18th century a skete was established, that now has two wooden churches: a smaller one from 1763 and a bigger one from 1813.
Piatra Neamț - the county's capital, a city beautiful situated between forested mountains. The church in Moldavian Gothic in its center dates from 15th century, being the chapel of the former Princely Court.
Histria was a Greek colony, than a Greek-Roman city. Founded around 657 BCE, it lasted until 7th century CE (more than 1,000 years), being destroyed by Slavic-Avar invaders. Greek language always prevailed over Latin, although Histria was situated in a majoritary Latin area in late Antiquity.
Was situated on the shore of what was then a gulf of Black Sea, which around 5th century CE became a lagoon, now caled Lake Sinoe, a nature reserve inside Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.
The archaeological site is situated in a remote area that can be reached through a road passing over marshes and reed fields. There is a rich museum in a big building near the site. The museum contains artefacts from the Greek - Roman city, starting with the Greek archaic period. there are also exhibited artefacts from other older cultures of ther area.
Is a range in Banat (southwest Romania), occupying 900 km² and reaching an elevation of 2,192 m. With its extensive, magnificent prehistorical forests, is part of the last Intact Forest Landscape* from temperate and southern Europe
*IFL is a theoretic concept created by ecologist organisations, defining a zone where the prehistorical forests extend on a surface large enough to ensure an entirely natural equilibrum of the ecosystems.
Is an area in Ivăneț Massif (one of the four massifs of Buzău Mountains), with spectacular cliffs and abysses covered in very wild temperate jungle. The most remarkable feature is the existence in the depth of the forersts of several cave sketes and hermitages, some of them dating from Paleochristian period: 4th century CE and others from medieval period. They are the earliest Christian monuments in Romania.
In 3rd-4th century CE, the territory of today Romania and Ukraine was home to the Gothic Confederation, a union of Gothic, Sarmatian (a Iranian-speaking people) and Dacian tribes, that at the time represented the most important military / political force in Europe after the Roman empire. The Goths had their center of power in the area of Buzau mountains and Subcarpathian hills. In 4th century, a part of them converted to Arian Christianity but as the ruling aristrocracy and the king were still pagan, these early Christians were persecuted and killed, like happened with Sabbas the Goth, a martyr celebrated as saint by the Romanian Orthodox Church.
In the same period, in Syria appeared a religious group - the Audians - that followed teaching and held beliefs considered by the majoritary church as heresies. The Paleochristian cave sketes from Buzău mountains contain rock signs that point to the Audian belief of those living there. The origin of the 4th century monks from Buzău Mountains is not clear but it seems there were some relations with the monks from Cappadocia, as the relicts of the aforementioned Sabbas have been moved into Cappadocia at the order of the famous bishop Basil the Great.
Rodna Mountains are a range situated in northern central Romania, marking the historical border between Transylvania and Maramureș. The range is 50 km long and covers some 1,300 km².
The National Park was created in 1990, including among other natural monuments the Pietrosu Reserve, which was an Unesco Biosphere Reserve since 1979. The total surface of the park is 466 km² and here live many wild animals, including brown bears, lynx, gray wolves, black capercaillies and eagles.
The mountains are famous for having snow late into the summer months (skiing is possible well into June, sometimes even July). A complete hike on the Rodnei main ridge in summer takes between 3 and 5 days, depending on the weather and the endurance of the hiker.
În first and second photos is the Horses Waterfall, tallest in Romania: 90 m.
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