Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Patrimoniu multietnic (Satu Mare, 2009)

Costum oşenesc. Colecţia Muzeului Judeţean Satu Mare Ошанський костюм. Колекція Повітового музею Сату Mape

Avas vidéki népviselet, Szatmár Megyei Múzeum gyűjteménye

Folk costume from Oaş Region. Collection of Satu Mare Coun ty Museum

(1325 posse. Varalya), Turţ (1378 villa walachalis Thwrch), Turulung (1216 Terebes), Valea Seacă (1378 Zarazpatak), Văgaş (hamlet of Tarna Mare).

The Romanian villages of Ugocea were called “possessiones valachales” in the historical

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documents, from the beginning. Their leaders were princes, according to the same “jus valachicum” we met in the neighboring counties. The region was part of the royal domains, but it became soon aristocratic property, thus the initial privileges of the villages were gradually transforming into serfdom, and princes became village lords serving the court.

The ethnographic area of Oaş was divided in time into two administrative regions: Ţara Oaşului and Ugocea. This area has created a specific patrimony, with particular features, highly valuable through the originality and creativity of the inhabitants.

The population of the two regions, Ţ ara Oaşului and the south of Ugocea, were a majority of Romanians, except several localities with other nationalities among Romanians: Oraşu Nou, Remetea, Vama, Dobolţ, Halmeu, Turulung - Hungarians, Cămârzana, Negreşti, Halmeu, Batard, Tarna Mare, Turt - Jews, Tarna Mare, Cidreag, Halmeu, Porumbeşti, Turulung - Russians and Ruthenians. A great number of Roman Catholic Schwabs were colonized in 1745 in Turulung, and the inhabitants of German origin have settled in Tarna Mare (1772) and in Batard