Alexandru Baboş, “Tracing a Sacred Building Tradition. Wooden Churches, Carpenters and Founders in Maramureş until the turn of the 18th Century”, Department of Architectural History, School of Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, 2004.
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In the restless years of the Hungarian war of independence (1702-1711), the Swedish general Johan August Meyerfeld reached Maramureş at the rainy end of August 1709 over the Carpathian Mountains from its south-eastern corner. He stayed overnight in some poor but dry houses in the border village of Borşa. The next morning he continued to Sighet, the centre of the county, following the beds of the Vişeu and Iza Rivers, crossing them countless of times, but, despite a long riding until late in the night, he could only cover 3 of the 5 Hungarian miles, staying again overnight in some village, welcomed by locals with white bread and wine.3
3 Călători străini despre Ţările Române, VIII, 260-263 and 280-285, Bucureşti 1983. A Hungarian royal mile was 11.3 km (Bogdán 1987, 58).
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In 1709, the vice comes of the county Francisc Darvaj lodged the Swedish general Meyerfeld and his companions at his castle.27
27 Varnaj in the text, it appears to be the altered form of Vajnag, the Hungarian name of the village Vonihovo (Voineşti). Călători străini despre Ţările Române, VIII, 263, Bucureşti 1983.