Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Ciumeşti. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2010)
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task. It is particularly hard to determine the exact size or the position of any of the three villages. We can only suppose, in the absence of any conclusive evidence, that all the three settlements were unified rather early, during the Middle Ages, under the name of Ciumeşti. The earliest known estates of the Kaplony kindred were located in Satu Mare County, between the Crasna and Someş rivers. The residence of the kindred was initially at Căpleni and then it was moved to Carei. Roughly 100 years after settling in the area, during the 14th century, the kindred was divided in descendant families, most of them being linked, through the residence and the property, to various settlements of Satu Mare County. Thus, the Kaplony kindred and its descendant families assumed a particular importance in the regional context, often interweaving their history with the one of the settlements owned. This is the case of Ciumeşti, too, which became the residential center of one of the most important descendant family of the Kaplony kindred: the Csomaközi family. Due to the heritage system, involving the equal division of the ancestral estates between descendants, the kins from the no-Casă tradiţională, detaliu de faţadă Hagyományos ház homlokzatának részlete Traditional house, detail of the facade 21
