Transylvania
Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: ????????????? / Transilvanija, Bulgarian: ???????????? (Transilvaniya) or ???????????? (Sedmogradsko), ???????????? (Sedmigradsko), Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvánia, Polish: Siedmiogród) forms the western and central parts of Romania. Transylvania was a principality during the Middle Ages.
Culture
- Johannes Honter - important reformer and cultural personality of Transylvania
- Transylvania in fiction - in the Western world, Transylvania is famously the home of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula.
It is also where the Sesame Street character Count grew up.
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| ► | Population |
| ► | Etymology |
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| ► | Culture |
| ► | References |
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