Remeți

Remeți (Ukrainian: Ремета; Hungarian: Pálosremete; German: Remetz; Yiddish: רעמיק‎) is a commune in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Piatra, Remeți and Teceu Mic.

In Romanian	In Ukrainian	In Hungarian
Piatra	Каминиця	Kövesláz or Ferencvölgye
Remeți	Ремета	Pálosremete
Teceu Mic	Тячів	Kistécső

Remeți Ремета
Commune
Location in Maramureș County
Remeți Location in Romania
Coordinates: 47°59′N 23°38′E
Country	Romania
County	Maramureș
Population  (2011)[1]	3,040
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.	MM

The village of Piatra includes the hamlet of Valea lui Francisc, known in German as Franzenthal. This was among the places in Romania where Zipser Germans settled and spoke their dialect of Zipserisch.[2][3]

References

1. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
2. Claus Stephani, Volkserzählungen der Zipser in Nordrumänien (1983), p. 271: "So entstand Franzenthal (Valea lui Francisc), ein Weiler, der heute zur Gemeinde Remetz gehört und nach dem ersten Hüttenbesitzer, Graf Franz von Käroly, benannt worden ist." (Thus Franzenthal [Valea lui Francisc] arose, a hamlet which is today a part of the commune of Remetz [Remeți] and was named after the owner of the first huts there, Count Franz von Käroly.)
3. Hans Gehl, Interethnische Beziehungen im rumänisch-ungarisch-ukrainischen Kontaktraum vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (1999), p. 500: "[...] Teceul şi Piatra I (Valea lui Francisc) şi Piatra II (Huţa). [...] Piatra sau Huţa - este un cătun care alături de Teceul Mic aparține de Remeți." (Teceu and Piatra I [Valea lui Francisc] and Piatra II [Huţa]. Piatra or Huţa - is a hamlet that together with Teceu Mic is part of Remeți.)