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Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the ...
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Transylvania, historic eastern European region, now in Romania. After forming part of Hungary in the 11th–16th centuries, it was an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire (16th–17th century) and then once again became part of Hungary at the end of the 17th century.
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In its early history, the territory of Transylvania belonged to a variety of empires and states, including Dacia, the Roman Empire, the Hun Empire and the Gepid Kingdom. There were also periods when autonomous political entities arose under the control of the Byzantine and the Bulgarian Empire. As a political entity, (Southern) Transylvania is ment...
The first heraldic representation of Transylvania is found on the coat of arms of Michael the Brave. Besides the Walachian eagle and the Moldavian auroch, Transylvania is here represented by two afronted lionsholding a sword (elements referring to the Dacian Kingdom), standing upon seven hills. The Transylvanian Diet of 1659 codified the representa...
The Transylvanian plateau, 300 to 500 meters (1,000-1,600 feet) high, is drained by the Mureş, Someş, Criş, and Olt rivers, as well as other tributaries of the Danube. This core of historical Transylvania roughly corresponds with nine counties of modern Romania. Other areas to the west and north, which also united with Romania in 1918 (inside the b...
The historical region granted to Romania in 1920 covered 23 counties including nearly 102,200 km² (102,787 - 103,093 in Hungarian sources and 102,200 in contemporary Romanian documents) now due to the several administrative reorganizations Transylvania covers 16 present-day counties Romanian: judeţ) which include nearly 99,837 km² of central and no...
Historic definitions of Transylvania vary geographically. The 2002 Romanian census classified Transylvania as the entire region of Romania west of the Carpathians. This region has a population of 7,221,733, with a large Romanian majority (75,9 percent). There are also sizeable Hungarian (20 percent), Roma (3.3 percent), German (0.7 percent) and Ser...
Transylvania is rich in mineral resources, notably lignite, iron, lead, manganese, gold, copper, natural gas, salt and sulfur. There are large iron and steel, chemical, and textile industries. Stock raising, agriculture, wine production and fruit growing are important occupations. Timberis another valuable resource. Transylvania accounts for around...
The medieval cities of Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu (European Capital Of Culture-2007), Târgu Mureş and SighişoaraThe city of Braşov and the nearby Poiana Braşov ski resortThe city of Hunedoara with the fourteenth century Hunyadi CastleThe citadel and the Art Nouveau city centre of OradeaTransylvania's long history of Muslim Turkish influence, as well as its late industrialization (which meant that in the late nineteenth century, Transylvania was still mostly covered with wilderness, created an orientalist fascination with the region by a number of notable Victorian writers. Following the publication of Emily Gerard's The Land Beyo...
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.Bánffy, Miklós, and Miklós Bánffy. The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvanian Trilogy. London, UK: Arcadia Books, 1999. ISBN 9781900850100.Boia, Lucian. History and myth in Romanian consciousness. Budapest, HU: Central European University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780585419466.Clement-Davies, David. The sight. New York, NY: Dutton Books, 2002. ISBN 9780525467236.All links retrieved March 25, 2020. 1. RTI Radio - Radio Transsylvania International. 2. The History Of Transylvania And The Transylvanian Saxonsby Dr. Konrad Gündisch, Oldenburg, Germany.
Transylvania, Historic region, northwestern and central Romania. It comprises a plateau surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. It formed the nucleus of the Dacian kingdom and was included in the Roman province of Dacia in the 2nd century ad.
Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1002, and it belonged to the Lands of the Hungarian Crown until 1920. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526 it belonged to the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, from which the Principality of Transylvania emerged in 1570 by the Treaty of Speyer.
