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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 ...
Transylvania ( Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal; Hungarian: Erdély; German: Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien, historically Überwald, also Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains and to ...
The Principality of Transylvania was established in 1570 when John II renounced his claim as King of Hungary in the Treaty of Speyer (ratified in 1571), [12] [22] and became a Transylvanian prince. [23] The treaty also recognized that the Principality of Transylvania belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary in the sense of public law. [24]
Ákos Barcsay. Akos Barcsay, (Achatius) (c.1610 ? - Kozmatelke July 1661) was Prince of Transylvania from September 14, 1658 to December 31, 1660. Barcsay's reign of a little over two years was a period of considerable domestic and international turmoil. It occurred during the end of Transylvania's "golden age" and saw the renewal of Ottoman ...
Ancient history of Transylvania. In ancient times, Romans exploited the gold mines in what is now Transylvania extensively, building access roads and forts to protect them, like Abrud. The region developed a strong infrastructure and economy, based on agriculture, cattle farming and mining. Colonists from Thracia, Moesia, Macedonia, Gaul, Syria ...
Largely as a result of the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Transylvania has become a popular setting for gothic horror fiction, and most particularly vampire fiction. In some later books and movies Stoker's Count Dracula was conflated with the historical Vlad III Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476), who though most likely born in the Transylvanian city of Sighișoara, ruled over ...
The Transylvanian Saxon culture refers to the regional culture of the Transylvanian Saxons ( German: Die Siebenbürger Sachsen, Romanian: Sași transilvăneni or sași transilvani, Hungarian: erdélyi szászok ), an ethnic German group (part of the Germans of Romania and one of the most significant constituent groups therein; also significantly ...
Transylvanian Memorandum. The Transylvanian Memorandum ( Romanian: Memorandumul Transilvaniei) was a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, and demanding an end to persecutions and Magyarization attempts.