Mukachevo

Ukraine / Zakarpatska / Mukacheve /
 city, district center
Mukachevo (Ukrainian: Мукачево, Rusyn: “Мукачово” or “Мукачево”) is the administative center of the rayon, and the second largest city in the Zakarpats'ka region, the Southwesternmost in Ukraine.

With a population of 93,738 inhabitants in 2008, it is also an important tourism attraction renowned for its spa offers.

Under the Austro-Hungarian ruling of the Habsburg nobility, the Jewish community (Ukrainian: Єврейська громада) — of which an important part of Hassidism followers — accounted for up to 47.9% of the population, in 1910, with relatively figures in the two following decades. But this community has been hardly struck by the establishment of two ghettos starting April 1944, when the Nazi forces invaded the region, and most of the Jews (as well as others) have been deported and killed in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukacheve
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Coordinates:   48°26'32"N   22°42'49"E

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  • Please, would it be possible to avoid nationalism and suppositions here and there against evidence, geography, history, documents, figures, statistics, etc. — for short: simple truth? The Carpathians are not totally Romanian… Păi nu evitaţi naţionalismul şi presupunerile pe aici pe undeva despre regiunea faţă de probele, geografia, istoria, documentele, cifrele, statisticile, ş.a. (sau pe scurt: numai adevărul), vă rog? Carpaţii nu sunt în întregime române…