Sighetu Marmației is a city (municipality) in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania. History Inhabited since the Hallstatt period, the populated area lies in the Tisza Valley, an important route as being the only access to the otherwise mountainous, sparsely populated region. After 895 in the 10th century the area became part of Kingdom of Hungary. The first mention of a settlement […]