Transylvania is an historical region in central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also encompass the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat.
The south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from the 13th to 16th centuries. It has more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles.
Alba Iulia is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the Mureș River in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a population of 63,536.
Unio Trium Nationum was a pact of mutual aid codified in 1438 by three Estates of Transylvania: the nobility, the Saxon (German) patrician class, and the free military Székelys. The union was directed against the whole of the peasantry, regardless of ethnicity, in response to the Transylvanian peasant revolt. In this typical feudal estate parliament, the peasants were not represented, and they did not benefit from its acts, as the commoners were not considered to be members of these feudal "nations".
The Transylvanian Saxons are a people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the mid 19th century.
Cisnădie is a town in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Sibiu. One village, Cisnădioara, is administered by the town.
The Germans of Romania represent one of the most significant historical ethnic minorities of Romania. During the interwar period, the total number of ethnic Germans in this country amounted to as much as c. 800,000, a figure which has subsequently fallen to c. 36,000. Following the decreasing trend of the overall population of Romania, the German community of the country is expected to continue shrinking in numbers as well, as it will later be officially reported in the near future by the partial results of the 2022 census.
Biertan is a commune in Transylvania, Romania, in the north of the Sibiu County, 80 km north of Sibiu and 29 km east of Mediaș. Biertan is one of the most important Saxon villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, having been on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1993. The Biertan fortified church was the seat of the Lutheran Evangelical Bishop in Transylvania between 1572 and 1867.
Transylvanian Saxon is the German dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons.
Saschiz is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 2,048: 88 percent Romanians, 5 percent Germans, 4 percent Hungarians and 3 percent Roma. It is composed of three villages: Cloașterf, Mihai Viteazu and Saschiz.
Bunești is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Bunești, Criț, Meșendorf, Roadeș, and Viscri. Each of these has a fortified church.
Bazna is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bazna, Boian and Velț. It lies 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Mediaș, within the catchment area of the Târnava Mică River.
Bruiu is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bruiu, Gherdeal and Șomartin. Each of these has a fortified church.
Brădeni is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Brădeni, Retiș and Țeline.
Valea Viilor is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 2,034, and is composed of two villages, Motiș and Valea Viilor. Each of these has a fortified church, Motiș fortified church and Valea Viilor fortified church. Both places were established and long inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons.
Georg Daniel Teutsch was a Transylvanian historian and Lutheran bishop.
The Biertan fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Biertan (Birthälm), Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. Briefly Roman Catholic, it became Lutheran following the Reformation. Together with the surrounding village, the church forms part of the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The name Transylvanian rug is used as a term of convenience to denote a cultural heritage of 15th–17th century Islamic rugs, mainly of Ottoman origin, which have been preserved in Transylvanian Protestant churches. The corpus of Transylvanian rugs constitutes one of the largest collections of Ottoman Anatolian rugs outside the Islamic world.
Transylvanian may refer to:
Adele Zay was a Transylvanian teacher, feminist and pedagogue. Her family were part of the German-speaking community of the Kingdom of Hungary. Because of her father's death during her infancy, Zay's education was interrupted by periods where she taught to earn money in order to continue private and formal studies. In 1880 after studying abroad in Vienna and Gotha, she passed her primary education certification for Germany and Hungary. The following year, she was certified as a secondary teacher, becoming the first Transylvanian woman to have earned a higher education. From 1875 to 1884, she taught at the Institute of Irma Keméndy in Szeged.