Gherta Mare village has 1359 inhabitants and is the second locality of the Turt district. The territory of the two Gherta villages, inexistent in 1315, together with Turulung village were confiscated by the king from Stefan of the Ákos family and donated to Toma, the son of Dionisie, the ancestor of the Jánky family. The entire mentioned territory belongs to the district of Satu Mare during the first part of the middle Ages until the second half of the 14th century. Gherta village was first attested in documents in 1341, when the king would take back his estate that he had donated to the Jánky family. This time, Gherta is part of the specified villages. A fortress is mentioned a year later within the locality when some borders were drawn. The owner of the castle was the Satu Mare comite. The surrounding villages were under the administration of the fortress, and Turulung among them. The fortress probably doesn’t function anymore in 1360, when the estate returns in the property of the Jánky family. It is mentioned in documents as ruined in 1393.
Gherta and Turulung are comprised in the list of the villages administrated by this fortress at the end of the 14th century, in 1378, when the Nyaláb domain was donated to the Dragosesti family. The two Gherta villages reach the property of the Perényi family in 1405 where they would stay for the next centuries.
A description of the villages from Hungary, dating from 1796, mentions that the ruins of the fortress are still visible. Nowadays, the place of the mediaeval monument isn’t clearly identified.
A quarry exists in the locality.
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