Cultural seminar romania transylvania

Transylvania

Transylvania – multicultural region

• The name of the region comes from the Latin Trans Silva ( the land beyond the forests)

• The main form of relief is the plateau, surrounded by the Carpathian mountains with hills, depressions and crossed by numberless rivers.

• The population in the area is over 3 million inhabitants who live in cities, towns or villages, each having its own specific architecture.

Transylvania – multicultural region

Ethnic Transylvania is a mosaic of Romanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Serbs, Gypsies and Jews - each of these populations manifested their cultural identities in the structure of villages, architecture in towns and the way of life.

Transylvania- short history • First there were the Dacians who reached a high level of material and spiritual

culture

• Conquered by the Roman Empire in 107

• The Magyar tribes first entered the region in the 8th century when they settled the Pannonian plain.

• In the 12th and 13th centuries, the areas in the south and northeast were settled by German colonists called (then and now) Saxons, with the purpose of securing the borders.

• The Hungarian Kingdom, the Ottoman and Austrian Empires occupied this land one after the other.

• In 1918 that Transylvania joins Romania, which reunites for the first time in what Romanians consider its natural borders.

Ethnic Transylvania

Hungarians, Saxons, Romanians, Swabs, Jews, Roma, etc.

The Szekely population

The Szekely writing

The Szekely gates

Traditional Szekely gate

Traditional Szekely gate

Traditional Szekely gate

Traditional Szekely

Kurtoskalacs

Szekely dishes

The Saxon land

Fortified churches

Biertan - Fortified Church

Biertan - Fortified Church

Biertan Church Tower

Prejmer Fortified church

Harman Fortified Church

Brasov

The Bran Castle

The Bran Castle

SIGHISOARAcitadel

SIGHISOARA

THE MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

SIBIU

SIBIU

SIBIU

SIBIU- the Capital of Culture

Around Cluj • Rimetea UNESCO Heritage

Turda - Salt mine

Apuseni mountains

• Rural civilisation • Picturesque landscapes• Natural protected areas • Caves and conserved areas