Chioar fortress
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| Chioar Fortress | |
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| east of the village Berchezoaia, Maramureș, at an altitude of 407 meters above sea level in Romania | |
 Ruins of the Chioar Fortress |
Chioar Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Chioarului, Hungarian: Kővár vára, or "Stone Fortress") is a former fortress in Maramureș County, located near Berchezoaia, on the Lăpuș river, in the Lăpuș Gorge Nature Reserve. The remains of the fortress are classified as a historical monument.
History[edit]
The fortress is documented in 1319 as the residence of a noble family in the area, the so-called Gutkelec family, this noble family also being attested at the court of Stephen V of Hungary. In 1367, the fortress came into the possession of Drag (voivode in Maramureș), and in 1378 it appears under the name Kewar castrum, owned by the Maramureș voivodes Drag and Balc. During the anti-Habsburg revolts at the turn of the 18th century, the fortress also came under the control of the famous Romanian hajduk Pintea the Brave.
The fortress was destroyed and dismantled in 1718 by the Austrian authorities, more precisely by General Rabutin de Bussy's cannons, so as not to be used by Francisc Rákóczi's kuruc.
Land of Chioar[edit]
From mid-16th century to 1876, the Land of Chioar formed an administrative unit in the historical Partium separate from the county system.
Nowadays, the bulk of the historical and cultural region of Chioar is located in Maramureș County, while its southern fringes fall in Cluj County.
References[edit]
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