Areas of Transylvania where Hungarian has co-official status ( in the localities of those areas, at least 20 % of the population is Hungarian ).

Its name is derived from the colonial Transylvania Company and has Latin origins: trans (" across ") and silva (" woods ").

Webster: The location of the town of Webster, Webster Township sits at the original geographical center of the county, which has moved to Cullowhee Township due to land taken away for the formation of Swain and Transylvania counties.

It has an impressive draw bridge, countless towers, a number of interior courts, and two large halls, " Knight Hall " and " Diet Hall ", as it housed the Diet of Transylvania for a short period.

* Don Johnson, a Transylvania farmer who has run unsuccessfully as a Republican for state agriculture commissioner in 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, and 2007.

With its more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles ( out of an original 300 fortified churches ), south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from the 13th to 16th centuries.

Located in the historic region of Transylvania, Sighişoara has a population of 26, 370 according to the 2011 census.

The Romanian Embassy in London has been taken over by " freedom fighters " who want Transylvania to become a homeland for the undead.

Transylvania is also the original home of the táncház tradition, which has since spread throughout Hungary.

The most important rural source of these songs was Transylvania, which is actually in Romania but has a large ethnic Hungarian minority.

It has one commune, Ghimeş-Făget, in Transylvania.

Though featuring none of the characters from the film, the series ( which was to have made use of the film's Prague set ) was about a young cowboy from Texas who becomes a sheriff in Transylvania, has many strange adventures, and encounters many strange creatures.

Because it was one of the first airlines to fly internationally from historical region Transylvania, it has been very successful in that it has not received much competition from other airlines.

Also, he is found in every level ( except Transylvania ) where the player has the option of letting him take them back to Duckburg.

Since 1615, when the Gabriel Bethlen Prince of Transylvania reaffirmed the rights of the town, the place has been referred to as Székelyudvarhely.

The movie starts with a horror episode in Transylvania, where brothers, one of whom is a priest, are looking for a cross that can cure their sister who has been bitten by a vampire.

In the 20th century, similar sentiments prevailed in post – World War I Hungary, which called for a revision of the borders set up by the Treaty of Trianon, especially regarding Transylvania, awarded to Romania, and south Slovakia, which has a Hungarian majority.

In 2011, Tartakovsky has joined Sony Pictures Animation, where he directed his feature film debut, Hotel Transylvania, and is directing an animated film based on Popeye.

Largely as a result of the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Transylvania has become a popular setting for gothic horror fiction, and most particularly vampire fiction.

* In the Harry Potter series Transylvania has a Quidditch team.

* Soviet Strike has a level set in an irradiated area of Transylvania, containing small " rivers " of radioactive material scattered around the terrain.

Sylvania ( an obvious homage to Transylvania ) is an area now in the Province of Stirland that has been the source of an Undead threat on many occasions.

Transylvania has educated two U. S. vice presidents, two U. S. Supreme Court justices, fifty U. S. senators, 101 U. S. representatives, 36 U. S. governors, and 34 U. S. ambassadors, making it a large producer of U. S. statesmen.

His father was Grand Prince Géza of Hungary ; his mother was Sarolt, daughter of Gyula of Transylvania a Hungarian nobleman who had been baptized in Greece.

On December 20, 1919, these men voted, along with the representatives of Romania's other regions, to ratify the unification acts that had been approved by Sfatul Ţării and the National Congresses in Transylvania and Bukovina.

Transylvania land claims had been invalidated after Virginia created Kentucky County, so settlers needed to file new land claims with Virginia.

Over the sixteen years following the battle, the Habsburgs of Austria gradually occupied and dominated southern Hungary and Transylvania, which had been largely cleared of the Ottoman forces.

As Renaissance styles survived late in the city, the appearance of Baroque art was also delayed, but from the mid-18th century Klausenburg was once again at the centre of the development and spread of art in Transylvania, as it had been two centuries earlier.

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania are seven villages ( six Saxon and one Székely ) founded by the Transylvanian Saxons, dominated by their fortified churches and characterized by a specific settlement pattern that have been preserved since the late Middle Ages.

Her father was George Báthory of the Ecsed branch of the family, brother of Andrew Bonaventura Báthory, who had been Voivod of Transylvania, while her mother was Anna Báthory ( 1539 – 1570 ), daughter of Stephen Báthory of Somlyó, another Voivod of Transylvania, was of the Somlyó branch.

A trial and execution would have caused a public scandal and disgraced a noble and influential family ( which at the time ruled Transylvania ), and Elizabeth's considerable property would have been seized by the crown.

" The term had been used by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania as early as 1600.

Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922, he was an avid supporter of the Little Entente, formed between Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia to fend off Hungarian irredentist claims ( Hungary claimed Transylvania, which Romania had been awarded after World War I ) and prevent the Habsburg dynasty from returning to power in Central Europe.

An influential section of the magnates, headed by the Palatine Ladislaus Garai and by Nicholas of Ilok, voivode of Transylvania, who had been concerned in the judicial murder of Matthias's brother Ladislaus, and hated the Hunyadis as semi-foreign upstarts, were fiercely opposed to Matthias's election.

Transylvania, together with the neighboring counties, gained the status of an autonomous state under Ottoman suzerainty after the central territories of the Kingdom of Hungary had been annexed by the Ottomans in 1541.

Having been raided twice by the Mongols within a single year, Transylvania felt the consequences of the invasion of 1241 – 1242 for more than two decades.

For instance, in 1442 he routed an Ottoman army that had been devastating Transylvania.

Although the Estates twice refused to endorse the declaration of war, Transylvania joined the alliance on January 28, 1595 after the leaders of the opposition had been executed on the order of the monarch.

Although it was the most dedicated ally of Germany, Romania's turning to the Allied side in August 1944 was rewarded with Northern Transylvania, which had been granted to Hungary in 1940 after the Second Vienna Award.

In post-Cold War Romania, where the Székelys form roughly a third of the ethnic Hungarian population, members of the group have been among the most vocal of Hungarians seeking an autonomous Hungarian region in Transylvania.

On March 10, 1945, the Soviet Union agreed to hand over Northern Transylvania, over of territory which had been handed to Hungary through the 1940 Second Vienna Arbitration.

Since the beginnings of the Uniate movement, there have been periodic conflicts between the Orthodox and Uniate in Ukraine and Belarus, then under Polish rule, and later also in Transylvania ( see the Romanian Church United with Rome ).