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Hello all, Today I will do a short partial overview of the peoples and costumes of Transylvania. Much silliness has been written about this region in pop culture and movies. This resulted from the identification of Prince Vlad III Drăculeşti [the impaler] with the fictional character Dracula. In fact, Vlad III was ruler of Wallachia [Oltenia and Muntenia], although he was born and spent part of his childhood in Sighişoara in Transylvania. Vlad's castle, where all the nastiness took place, is…

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TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA: what had begun as a peasant society gradually transformed into an urban one, with the citizens of the developing Saxon towns—such as Sighișoara—eventually becoming the leading force.....  Transylvanian Saxons were a German-speaking population that in the Middle Ages settled in Transylvania, then part of Hungary. Feudal System, Transylvania Romania, The Middle Ages, 12th Century, Middle Ages, Leaning Tower Of Pisa, Genealogy, Ferry Building San Francisco, Hungary

Transylvanian Saxons, German-speaking population that in the Middle Ages settled in Transylvania, then part of Hungary. The Transylvanian Saxons represented one of the three nations that made up the Transylvanian feudal system. Their region was called the Szászföld (Hungarian: Saxon Lands) or Királyföld (Royal Lands). A small population of Saxons continues to live in Transylvania, now part of Romania. In the 12th century King Géza II of Hungary (reigned 1141–62) invited Germans to settle and…

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