What is "maramures"

Maramureș may refer to the following:

• Maramureș, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day Romania and Ukraine, that occupies the Maramureș Depression and Maramureș Mountains, a mountain range in North East Carpathians. Alternative names: Land of Maramureș, Țara Maramureșului, Maramureș (historical region), Maramureș (geographical region), Máramaros, Marmatia, Marmația.
• Maramureș County, the southern part of Maramureș, is a county in Romania. In 1918-1938, it covered only ca. half of what it covers today, hence when one wants to distinguish that in historical contexts, one also refers to Maramureș County (1918-1938).
• Maramureș Region, a former administrative unit of Communist Romania in 1960-1968, which covered a much larger area than Maramureș County.
• Northern Maramuresh, the northern part of Maramureș, is a geographic, historical, and ethno-cultural region in Ukraine
• Máramaros County, a county in the historic Kingdom of Hungary. Alternative names: Máramaros, Máramaros comitatus, Maramureș comitatus. It might also refer to the 1940-1944 county of Hungary, something alternatively referred as Máramaros (World War II).

Maramureș is a geographical, historical and ethno-cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated on the northeastern Carpathians, along the upper Tisa River; it covers the Maramureș Depression and the surrounding Carpathian mountains.

Alternatively, the name Maramureș is used for the Maramureș County of Romania, which contains the southern section of the historical region.