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Transylvania

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ethnic Transylvania

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

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The Szekely population

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The Szekely writing

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The Szekely gates

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Traditional Szekely gate

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Traditional Szekely gate

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Traditional Szekely gate

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Traditional Szekely

Kurtoskalacs

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Szekely dishes

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The Saxon land

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Fortified churches

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Biertan - Fortified Church

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Biertan - Fortified Church

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Biertan Church Tower

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Prejmer Fortified church

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Harman Fortified Church

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Brasov

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The Bran Castle

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The Bran Castle

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SIGHISOARAcitadel

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SIGHISOARA

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THE MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

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SIBIU

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SIBIU

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SIBIU

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SIBIU- the Capital of Culture

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Around Cluj • Rimetea UNESCO Heritage

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Turda - Salt mine

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Apuseni mountains

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

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