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    Quote Originally Posted by ixulescu View Post
    No, there are no Asian connections. The tower was made in the fashion of the stone-built gothic churches in the area.

    What's interesting is that they made the church spire so tall, in one of them is 78 meters high. That's quite an impressive feat of engineering, considering this is a design made hundreds of years ago by illiterate peasants.

    A lot of Romanians translate "țăran" as peasant, because it was used as such in feudal Wallachia and Moldova. In this land we were freemen who lived under Vlach law. In Romanian we called it "obiceiul pământului", which means "tradition of the land". The word "țăran" literally means "man of the land".

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    I am curious about the origin of the toponym Maramureș. There is someone who knows it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ixulescu View Post
    No, there are no Asian connections. The tower was made in the fashion of the stone-built gothic churches in the area.

    What's interesting is that they made the church spire so tall, in one of them is 78 meters high. That's quite an impressive feat of engineering, considering this is a design made hundreds of years ago by illiterate peasants.


    Peasants can build some good shit when the government gets out of their way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laku View Post
    I am curious about the origin of the toponym Maramureș. There is someone who knows it?
    Mara is the name of one river and Mures of another. Mara is a Romanian forename, which was more popular in the past than now. Mures is just the Romanian name for the river, which by Herodot was called Maris.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laku View Post
    I am curious about the origin of the toponym Maramureș. There is someone who knows it?
    -mureș comes from the river Mureș, called Maris by Herodotus. According to Herodotus, the Agathyrsi, a people that had Thraco-Scythian characteristics, inhabited the Mureș river valley. Perhaps the toponym is from their language, if not from ancient Greek. Maramureș is located just north of the river, so the Mara- prefix is possibly there to make that distinction. Mara was also the name of a local landowning noble family (Cnezatul Marei).
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    They're beautiful but they also look a bit sinister.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ion Basescul View Post
    Mara is the name of one river and Mures of another. Mara is a Romanian forename, which was more popular in the past than now. Mures is just the Romanian name for the river, which by Herodot was called Maris.
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    -mureș comes from the river Mureș, called Maris by Herodotus. According to Herodotus, the Agathyrsi, a people that had Thraco-Scythian characteristics, occupied the Mureș river valley. Perhaps the toponym is from their language, if not from ancient Greek. Maramureș is located just north of the river, so the Mara- prefix is possibly there to make that distinction. Mara was also the name of a local landowning noble family (Cnezatul Marei).
    Thanks for your explanations guys. I was curious because there is a small town in the north of Albania with a similar name called Mamurras.

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    I visit in past. Now a group of these are unesco heritage site. This type of style very rare in world and craftsmanship like Japanese style with prefect fitting joints and with heavy wood beams.

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