Seini

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Seini (German: Leuchtenburg; Hungarian: Szinérváralja) is a town in Maramureș County, Romania. It administers two villages, Săbișa (Kissebespatak) and Viile Apei (Apahegy). It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program.

Geography

The town is located in the western part of Maramureș County, Template:Cvt from the county seat, Baia Mare, on the border with Satu Mare County. It belongs to the Baia Mare metropolitan area.

Seini is crossed by national road DN1C [ro] (part of European route E58), which runs from Cluj-Napoca north towards Baia Mare and the border crossing at Halmeu, where it connects with the Ukrainian highway M26. The town has two train stations (Seini [ro] and Săbișa), both serving the CFR Main Line 400, which connects Brașov with Baia Mare and Satu Mare.

Demographics

At the 2021 census, Seini had a population of 8,198, of which 77% were Romanians, 12.2% Hungarians, and 2.7% Roma.[1]

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Historical population
YearPop.±%
1880 4,157—    
1900 5,212+25.4%
1910 6,180+18.6%
1930 6,477+4.8%
1956 7,017+8.3%
1977 9,055+29.0%
1992 9,192+1.5%
2002 9,439+2.7%
2011 8,770−7.1%
2021 8,198−6.5%
Source: Census data

Natives

  • Béla Bay (1907–1999), Hungarian épée and foil fencer
  • Alex Goldfarb (born 1947), Israeli politician
  • János Sylvester (1504–1552), Hungarian figure of the Reformation, poet, and grammarian
  • Charles Zagonyi (1822–1870), former Hungarian military officer who served in the American Civil War

References

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