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* Siebenbürgen means explicitly " Seven Towns " or " Seven Castles ".

However, this etymology seems to originate in the dialectical tradition of the first, mainly Low German, Flemish and Dutch settlers, in whose homelands there are hilly regions called " Zevenbergen " ( in southern Holland ) and " Sevenbergen " ( east of the town of Hameln on the river Weser, Germany ).