Alternate names: Săpînţa [Rom], Szaploncza [Hun], Spinka ספינקא [Yid], Sapunka [Slov], Szaplonca, Săpânta. 47°58' N, 23°42' E, 9 miles WNW of Sighetu Marmaţiei (Máramarossziget), on the Tisza River (border with Ukraine).. 1900 Jewish population: 573 (1877), 1,038 (in 1920). Jewish population: 573 (1877), 1,038 (in 1920)
- Pinkas HaKehilot, Romania, Vol. 2 (1980), p. 193: "Sapanta"
- Jewish Bukovina. [Mar 2014]
CEMETERY:
- Czernowitz-Ehpes has photos. [Mar 2014]
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[UPDATE] Photos by Charles Burns [July 2018]