Lăpuș

Lăpuș (formerly Lăpușul Românesc; Hungarian: Oláhlápos) is a commune in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania, on the Lăpuș River, at 12 km from the town of Târgu Lăpuș. It is composed of a single village, Lăpuș. Etymologically, its name appears to come from the Hungarian lápos (i.e. "flatland, bog, muddy place"). Its existence is attested, under the name of Dragosfálva, in 1293, in an edict through which the land of Lápos is given by the king of Hungary to one Denis Tomaj, from the nation of the Patzinaks,[2] although there are traces of habitation in the area as early as the Bronze Age. It was a famous anti-communist resistance area after World War II (1949-1953).

Lăpuș
Commune
Location in Maramureș County
Lăpuș Location in Romania
Coordinates: 47°29′44″N 24°0′25″E
Country	Romania
County	Maramureș
Area	86.55 km^2 (33.42 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]	3,709
• Density	43/km^2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	EET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.	MM

It has a beautiful old wooden church, built at the end of the 17th century, that was restored between 2002 and 2004.

Notes

1. "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
2. Barons and Other Nobles

External links

• Older black and white pictures from Lăpuș - Photos by Magne Antonsen
• Panorama of the northern part of Lăpuș
• The old wooden church of Lăpuș
• The largest Bronze Age construction from South-Eastern Europe discovered by archaeologists in Lăpușul Românesc