Fărcașa
commune in Maramureș County, Romania
Fărcașa (Hungarian: Farkasaszó) is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Buzești (Szamosújfalu), Fărcașa, Sârbi (Oláhtótfalu), and Tămaia (Tomány).
The commune is located in the western part of the county, on the border with Satu Mare County. It lies on the right bank of the river Someș, at a distance of 27 km (17 mi) from the county seat, Baia Mare.
At the 2011 census, Fărcașa had a population of 4,015; of those, 95.64% were ethnic Romanians and 1.54% Roma. At the 2021 census, the commune had 4,096 inhabitants, of which 91.94% were Romanians and 2.12% Roma.
“Fărcașa” enters the record as commune in Maramureș County, Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fărcașa, commune and Maramureș can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Fărcașa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fărcașa, commune and Maramureș provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5056033. Authority coordinates are 47.604, 23.346. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Fărcașa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.