Satu Mare (Hungarian: Szatmárnémeti ; German: Sathmar; Yiddish: סאטמאר (Satmar)) is a city with a population of 94,948 (2011) and the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania. Mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum as “Castrum Zotmar”, the city has a history going back to the Middle Ages. Today, it is an academic, cultural, industrial and business centre in northwestern Romania.
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Famous quotes containing the word mare:
“for beauty with sorrow
Is a burden hard to be borne:
The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there;
That music, remote, forlorn.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)