Transylvania (rou)

Transylvania

Transylvania ranks 2,780th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Mackay, Queensland, Montbard, and Beersheba. Memorable people born in Transylvania include Béla IV of Hungary, Álmos, and Mundzuk. Memorable people who died in Transylvania include Álmos, Basarab the Old, and Radu II of Wallachia. Transylvania has been the birth place of many politicians and military personnels and the death place of many politicians. Transylvania is located in Romania.

Transylvania 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 west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Historical Transylvania also includes small parts of neighbouring Western Moldavia and even a small part of south-western neighbouring Bukovina to its north east. The capital of the region is Cluj-Napoca. Read more on Wikipedia