Where ethnic groups demand autonomy or self-governance, one solution is to allow the formation of smaller units which can then cooperate with others within a larger trans-national entity. Du Nay, Alain, Andr Du Nay, and rpd Kosztin. Lovatt says that regardless of a persons ethnic origin, a distinctive "'Transylvanian identity' is developing. Transylvania was slowly conquered by the Magyar tribes, during a period of 300 years. Since World War I, it has been part of Romania, apart from a brief period of Hungarian occupation during World War II. Romanians chided the Hungarians for refusing to integrate and in some cases for their ignorance of the Romanian language. The early eleventh century was marked by the conflict between Stephen I of Hungary and his uncle Gyula, the ruler of Transylvania. [19] The assimilation process for Hungarians slowed during the first stages of the communist era, when most of the region's ethnic Hungarian population was granted nominal political autonomy, but accelerated under the communist regime. The region of Transylvania is located in the country of Romania and has a long history of being exchanged back and forth between Hungary, Romania, and even the Turks at one point in its history. [7] By the early eleventh century the ethnic Hungarian]] Szkely were established in southeastern Transylvania as a border population of ready warriors, and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the areas in the south and northeast were settled by German colonists called Saxons. Dacia reached its maximum extent under the rule of Burebista. The 16 counties are: Historic definitions of Transylvania vary geographically. Between tenth-twelfth centuries C.E. The first heraldic representation of Transylvania is found on the coat of arms of Michael the Brave. The Szekler National Council is a local Hungarian group founded in 2003 with autonomy as its stated goal. The prince, coveting the Polish crown, allied with Sweden and invaded Poland in spite of the Turkish Porte (Sultan) clearly prohibiting any military action. There are also sizeable Hungarian (20 percent), Roma (3.3 percent), German (0.7 percent) and Serb (0.1 percent) communities. The post-WWII borders with Hungary, agreed on at the Treaty of Paris, were identical with those set out in 1920. 
Under Bocskai's successors, most notably Gabriel Bethlen and George I Rkczi, Transylvania passed through a golden age for many religious movements and for the arts and culture. This core of historical Transylvania roughly corresponds with nine counties of modern Romania. The general assembly (congregatio generalis) of the four Estates had few genuine legislative powers in Transylvania, but it sometimes took measures regarding order in the country. It may also take its origin from the Khazar word Ardil-land (Hebrew "Eretz Ardil," from the Celtic "Arduenna" (forest), reflected in other names such as Arda, Ardal, Ardistan, Ardiche, Ardennes, Ardelt and Ardilla, or from the Sanskrit Har-Deal. The new province was divided under Hadrian: Dacia Superior, that corresponded roughly to Transylvania and Dacia Inferior, similar to the region of South Romania (Walachia). [15]. [1] "Transylvania" means "beyond the forest" (trans meaning "across, over, beyond").
Following the publication of Emily Gerard's The Land Beyond the Forest (1888), Bram Stoker wrote his gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, using Transylvania as a setting. In the seventeenth century, Transylvania was an autonomous state and passed through a "Golden age" for, ISBN links support NWE through referral fees, Conquest of Transylvania and integration into the Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania as an Independent Principality. The Transylvanian Diet of 1659 codified the representation of the privileged nations in Transylvania's coat of arms. Due to increasing pressure from the Visigoths, the Romans abandoned the province during the reign of the Emperor Aurelian in 271. However the autonomy was taken by the end of rpd dynasty in 1301. Since then it has been represented in fiction and literature as a land of mystery and magic. Other areas to the west and north, which also united with Romania in 1918 (inside the border established by peace treaties in 1919-20), are since that time widely considered part of Transylvania. Among the most famous is the donarium from Biertan (fourth century) having the inscription 'Ego Zenovius votvm posui' (I, Zenovie, offered this). It is also famous for its bear spotting and lynx population, a population that thrived during communism when the dictator of Nicolae Ceausescu was the only citizen of the land permitted to hunt. Roman influence was broadened by the construction of modern roads, and some existing major cities, like Sarmizegethusa and Tsierna (today Orsova) were made colonies. [13], A new and more radical organization, the Hungarian Civic Party, has risen to challenge the establishment Hungarian party and has advocated for the autonomy of the Szekler region. The modern English name is probably taken from the Hungarian Erdly, which is derived from Erd-elve meaning "beyond the forest" (a meaning first referred to in its Medieval Latin version in a twelfth century document - Gesta Hungarorum). It was briefly united with Wallachia and Moldavi in 1600 under Michael the Brave. "they form an in-group with other Transylvanians, regardless of their ethnic origin. Separatist Movement seeks inspiration in Kosovo. After the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent overran central Hungary, Transylvania became a semi-independent principality where Austrian and Turkish influences vied for supremacy for nearly two centuries. Bounded in the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historic Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains. The Calvinist magnate of Bihar county Stephen Bocskai managed to obtain, through the Peace of Vienna (June 23, 1606), religious liberty and political autonomy for the region, the restoration of all confiscated estates, the repeal of all "unrighteous" judgments, as well as his own recognition as independent sovereign prince of an enlarged Transylvania. Kosovos Actions Hearten a Hungarian Enclave. This is due to the emigration of non-Romanian peoples, assimilation and internal migration within Romania (estimates show that between 1945 and 1977, some 630,000 people moved from the Old Kingdom to Transylvania, and 280,000 from Transylvania to the Old Kingdom, most notably to Bucharest). The Sun and the Moon representing the Szkelys. This was followed by a second Mongol invasion in 1285, led by Nogai Khan. Hungarian legislation also came to supersede the Austrian code of civil procedure, penal law, commercial law, and regulations for bills of exchange. The only possibility for Romanians to retain or access nobility in Hungarian Transylvania was through conversion to Catholicism. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. During Antoninus Pius (138-161) the same territory was included in the provinces Dacia Porolissensis (capital at Porolissum) and Dacia Apulensis (capital at Apulum, today Alba-Iulia city in Romania). His military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire]] brought him the status of Transylvanian governor in 1446 and papal recognition as the Prince of Transylvania in 1448. Hungarians assert, among other things, that the Roman population quit Dacia completely in 271, that the Romans could not have made a lasting impression on Transylvania's aboriginal population in only two centuries, and that Transylvania's Romanians descended from Balkan nomads who crossed northward over the Danube in the thirteenth century and flowed into Transylvania in any significant numbers only after Hungary opened its borders to foreigners. The initial e- in Hungarian occasionally changes to a in Romanian (cf. After the suppression of the Budai Nagy Antal-revolt in 1437, the political system was based on Unio Trium Nationum (The Union of the Three Nations). The south of Transylvania is home to the Carpathian Mountain range, while the west is dominated by the Apuseni Mountains. The latter period of their rule saw a four-sided conflict in Transylvania involving the Transylvanian Bthorys, the emerging Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanian voivoideship (province) of Wallachia. Seven red towers on a yellow background representing the seven fortified cities of the Transylvanian Saxons, The medieval cities of Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu (European Capital Of Culture-2007), Trgu Mure and Sighioara, The city of Braov and the nearby Poiana Braov ski resort, The city of Hunedoara with the fourteenth century Hunyadi Castle, The citadel and the Art Nouveau city centre of Oradea, The Wooden Churches of the Maramure region, The Dacian Fortresses of the Ortie Mountains, including Sarmizegetusa, The cafe culture, street theatre and cosmopolitan society of Sibiu. He was a Transylvanian noble of Romanian origin some sources indicating him as the son of Voicu/Vajk, a Romanian boyar (noble) from Wallachia though other sources are telling that his father was a Transylvanian Vlach/Romanian. Gelou (Gelu in Romanian, Gyalu in Hungarian) leader of the Vlachs (ancient Romanians )and Slavs in Transylvania was ruling over the Middle part of Transylvania and had his capital at Dbca. 6. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, a Hungarian minority group is pressing for greater autonomy in the Szekler Region (the counties of Harghita and Covasna and part of Mures County) where its members outnumber Romanians[12] There have been tensions in Transylvania between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians who want autonomy. Transylvania's long history of Muslim Turkish influence, as well as its late industrialization (which meant that in the late nineteenth century, Transylvania was still mostly covered with wilderness, created an orientalist fascination with the region by a number of notable Victorian writers. [2] It may be a result of an elision from the Romanian words aur and deal ("gold" and "hill," respectively), resulting in Ardeal from the composed word Aur-deal. in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards.
"This," she says, "may help to explain why there was no escalation of violent ethnic conflict in Transylvania." The first known occurrence of the Romanian name appeared in a document in 1432 as Ardeliu. At the time of the novel, the region of Transylvania was under the Hungarian domain. By the Battle of the Mohacs in 1526, Transylvania became Turk territory, a situation that stayed in effect through the Ottoman Empire and into the first half of the twentieth century. From 1711 onward, the princes of Transylvania were replaced with Austrian governors and in 1765 Transylvania was declared a grand principality. No written or architectural evidence bears witness to the presence of "proto-Romanians" the lands north of the Danube during the millennium after Rome's withdrawal from Dacia. The Magyars first besieged the citadel of Zotmar (Romanian: Satu Mare, Hungarian: Szatmr) and then Menumorut's castle in Bihar, and were able to defeat him. Ethnic identity was suppressed during the communist period (1947-1989) submerged within a national identity. Others regard the history of inter-cultural tolerance in Transylvania as too strong for a Kosovo-type conflict to occur. [4] As a political entity, (Southern) Transylvania is mentioned from the twelfth century as a county (Alba) of the Kingdom of Hungary (M. princeps ultrasilvanus - comes Bellegratae). At the beginning of the ninth century, Transylvania, along with eastern Pannonia, was under the control of the First Bulgarian Empire. Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. After the Treaty of Paris (1947), at the end of World War II, the territory was returned to Romania. The Kingdom of Dacia was in existence at least as early as the beginning of the 2nd century B.C.E. Thus, one writer suggests: the following causal mechanism: European integration has created conditions under which regional groups (e.g. As he subsequently extended his rule over Moldavia, Michael the Brave unified for the first time in history all the territories where Romanians lived, rebuilding the mainland of the ancient Kingdom of Dacia. Magyar Autonomy, An Issue Romania Needs To Deal With. Transylvania is rich in mineral resources, notably lignite, iron, lead, manganese, gold, copper, natural gas, salt and sulfur. The novel itself is inspired by folklore and superstition, which jested that the Count of the castle would skewer its enemies and suck their blood for sport. Transylvania is an ancient land, once the nucleus of the powerful Kingdom of Dacia. As a response to this policy, several peaceful movements of the Romanian Orthodox population advocated for freedom of worship for all the Transylvanian population, most notably being the movements led by Visarion Sarai, Nicolae Oprea Miclu and Sofronie of Cioara. Romania residents of the Hungarian dominated area claim that their interests are ignored by the local government, which, for example, distributes aid to church-run schools unevenly, while use of Hungarian by many institutions and clubs excludes them by default (many are not bilingual, partly because Hungarians do not encourage Romanians to learn Hungarian but complain when they Romanians can't speak the language. "[16] In fact, in sharp contrast to how many in Europe traditionally regarded Transylvania, as a place of "despots, vampires and werewolves," Transylvanians regard their homeland as "an enlightened place of religious tolerance, reform and learning."[17]. [8], The sixteenth century in Southeastern Europe was marked by the struggle between the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Catholic Habsburg Empire. Following this devastation, Transylvania was reorganized according to a class system of Estates, which established privileged groups (universitates) with power and influence in economic and political life, as well as along ethnic lines. Another novel featuring Transylvania is The Sight, by author David Clement-Davies. Hung.
[18] The ethnic Hungarian population of Transylvania, largely composed of Szkely, form a majority in the counties of Covasna and Harghita. One of his descendants, Ahtum, was a duke of Banat and the last ruler who opposed to the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom in the eleventh century, but he was too, defeated by the Hungarian Crown. It has been emboldened by Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, although unlike the Kosovars, the Szeklers are asking for autonomy within Romania rather than complete independence, leaving foreign policy and national defense in the hands of the government in Bucharest. At the beginning of the ninth century the Hungarian tribes were located in the north of the Black Sea. The area now constituting Transylvania was the political center of the ancient Kingdom of Dacia, where several important fortified cities were built; among them was the capital Sarmizegetusa, located near the current Romanian town of Hunedoara. Besides the Walachian eagle and the Moldavian auroch, Transylvania is here represented by two afronted lions holding a sword (elements referring to the Dacian Kingdom), standing upon seven hills. The Hungarian politician, Lszl Tks, one of the party leaders, is pressing for greater autonomy, saying that Romanian and Hungarian authorities have to reach an agreement regarding the statute of the Hungarian community, the Szeckler county respectively. Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism. However, within the empire, Transylvania "had a special legal status in which the nobility (including ethnic Hungarians and ethnic Romanians) were allowed to construct the legal systems and the local government structures". In addition to being known as the home of the original Vlad Dracula, Transylvania is known for being Romanias fourth largest region and is also home to a wide number of Romanias Heritage Sites listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site lists.
Under Bocskai's successors, most notably Gabriel Bethlen and George I Rkczi, Transylvania passed through a golden age for many religious movements and for the arts and culture. This core of historical Transylvania roughly corresponds with nine counties of modern Romania. The general assembly (congregatio generalis) of the four Estates had few genuine legislative powers in Transylvania, but it sometimes took measures regarding order in the country. It may also take its origin from the Khazar word Ardil-land (Hebrew "Eretz Ardil," from the Celtic "Arduenna" (forest), reflected in other names such as Arda, Ardal, Ardistan, Ardiche, Ardennes, Ardelt and Ardilla, or from the Sanskrit Har-Deal. The new province was divided under Hadrian: Dacia Superior, that corresponded roughly to Transylvania and Dacia Inferior, similar to the region of South Romania (Walachia). [15]. [1] "Transylvania" means "beyond the forest" (trans meaning "across, over, beyond"). Following the publication of Emily Gerard's The Land Beyond the Forest (1888), Bram Stoker wrote his gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, using Transylvania as a setting. In the seventeenth century, Transylvania was an autonomous state and passed through a "Golden age" for, ISBN links support NWE through referral fees, Conquest of Transylvania and integration into the Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania as an Independent Principality. The Transylvanian Diet of 1659 codified the representation of the privileged nations in Transylvania's coat of arms. Due to increasing pressure from the Visigoths, the Romans abandoned the province during the reign of the Emperor Aurelian in 271. However the autonomy was taken by the end of rpd dynasty in 1301. Since then it has been represented in fiction and literature as a land of mystery and magic. Other areas to the west and north, which also united with Romania in 1918 (inside the border established by peace treaties in 1919-20), are since that time widely considered part of Transylvania. Among the most famous is the donarium from Biertan (fourth century) having the inscription 'Ego Zenovius votvm posui' (I, Zenovie, offered this). It is also famous for its bear spotting and lynx population, a population that thrived during communism when the dictator of Nicolae Ceausescu was the only citizen of the land permitted to hunt. Roman influence was broadened by the construction of modern roads, and some existing major cities, like Sarmizegethusa and Tsierna (today Orsova) were made colonies. [13], A new and more radical organization, the Hungarian Civic Party, has risen to challenge the establishment Hungarian party and has advocated for the autonomy of the Szekler region. The modern English name is probably taken from the Hungarian Erdly, which is derived from Erd-elve meaning "beyond the forest" (a meaning first referred to in its Medieval Latin version in a twelfth century document - Gesta Hungarorum). It was briefly united with Wallachia and Moldavi in 1600 under Michael the Brave. "they form an in-group with other Transylvanians, regardless of their ethnic origin. Separatist Movement seeks inspiration in Kosovo. After the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent overran central Hungary, Transylvania became a semi-independent principality where Austrian and Turkish influences vied for supremacy for nearly two centuries. Bounded in the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historic Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains. The Calvinist magnate of Bihar county Stephen Bocskai managed to obtain, through the Peace of Vienna (June 23, 1606), religious liberty and political autonomy for the region, the restoration of all confiscated estates, the repeal of all "unrighteous" judgments, as well as his own recognition as independent sovereign prince of an enlarged Transylvania. Kosovos Actions Hearten a Hungarian Enclave. This is due to the emigration of non-Romanian peoples, assimilation and internal migration within Romania (estimates show that between 1945 and 1977, some 630,000 people moved from the Old Kingdom to Transylvania, and 280,000 from Transylvania to the Old Kingdom, most notably to Bucharest). The Sun and the Moon representing the Szkelys. This was followed by a second Mongol invasion in 1285, led by Nogai Khan. Hungarian legislation also came to supersede the Austrian code of civil procedure, penal law, commercial law, and regulations for bills of exchange. The only possibility for Romanians to retain or access nobility in Hungarian Transylvania was through conversion to Catholicism. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. During Antoninus Pius (138-161) the same territory was included in the provinces Dacia Porolissensis (capital at Porolissum) and Dacia Apulensis (capital at Apulum, today Alba-Iulia city in Romania). His military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire]] brought him the status of Transylvanian governor in 1446 and papal recognition as the Prince of Transylvania in 1448. Hungarians assert, among other things, that the Roman population quit Dacia completely in 271, that the Romans could not have made a lasting impression on Transylvania's aboriginal population in only two centuries, and that Transylvania's Romanians descended from Balkan nomads who crossed northward over the Danube in the thirteenth century and flowed into Transylvania in any significant numbers only after Hungary opened its borders to foreigners. The initial e- in Hungarian occasionally changes to a in Romanian (cf. After the suppression of the Budai Nagy Antal-revolt in 1437, the political system was based on Unio Trium Nationum (The Union of the Three Nations). The south of Transylvania is home to the Carpathian Mountain range, while the west is dominated by the Apuseni Mountains. The latter period of their rule saw a four-sided conflict in Transylvania involving the Transylvanian Bthorys, the emerging Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Romanian voivoideship (province) of Wallachia. Seven red towers on a yellow background representing the seven fortified cities of the Transylvanian Saxons, The medieval cities of Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu (European Capital Of Culture-2007), Trgu Mure and Sighioara, The city of Braov and the nearby Poiana Braov ski resort, The city of Hunedoara with the fourteenth century Hunyadi Castle, The citadel and the Art Nouveau city centre of Oradea, The Wooden Churches of the Maramure region, The Dacian Fortresses of the Ortie Mountains, including Sarmizegetusa, The cafe culture, street theatre and cosmopolitan society of Sibiu. He was a Transylvanian noble of Romanian origin some sources indicating him as the son of Voicu/Vajk, a Romanian boyar (noble) from Wallachia though other sources are telling that his father was a Transylvanian Vlach/Romanian. Gelou (Gelu in Romanian, Gyalu in Hungarian) leader of the Vlachs (ancient Romanians )and Slavs in Transylvania was ruling over the Middle part of Transylvania and had his capital at Dbca. 6. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, a Hungarian minority group is pressing for greater autonomy in the Szekler Region (the counties of Harghita and Covasna and part of Mures County) where its members outnumber Romanians[12] There have been tensions in Transylvania between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians who want autonomy. Transylvania's long history of Muslim Turkish influence, as well as its late industrialization (which meant that in the late nineteenth century, Transylvania was still mostly covered with wilderness, created an orientalist fascination with the region by a number of notable Victorian writers. [2] It may be a result of an elision from the Romanian words aur and deal ("gold" and "hill," respectively), resulting in Ardeal from the composed word Aur-deal. in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards.
"This," she says, "may help to explain why there was no escalation of violent ethnic conflict in Transylvania." The first known occurrence of the Romanian name appeared in a document in 1432 as Ardeliu. At the time of the novel, the region of Transylvania was under the Hungarian domain. By the Battle of the Mohacs in 1526, Transylvania became Turk territory, a situation that stayed in effect through the Ottoman Empire and into the first half of the twentieth century. From 1711 onward, the princes of Transylvania were replaced with Austrian governors and in 1765 Transylvania was declared a grand principality. No written or architectural evidence bears witness to the presence of "proto-Romanians" the lands north of the Danube during the millennium after Rome's withdrawal from Dacia. The Magyars first besieged the citadel of Zotmar (Romanian: Satu Mare, Hungarian: Szatmr) and then Menumorut's castle in Bihar, and were able to defeat him. Ethnic identity was suppressed during the communist period (1947-1989) submerged within a national identity. Others regard the history of inter-cultural tolerance in Transylvania as too strong for a Kosovo-type conflict to occur. [4] As a political entity, (Southern) Transylvania is mentioned from the twelfth century as a county (Alba) of the Kingdom of Hungary (M. princeps ultrasilvanus - comes Bellegratae). At the beginning of the ninth century, Transylvania, along with eastern Pannonia, was under the control of the First Bulgarian Empire. Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania. After the Treaty of Paris (1947), at the end of World War II, the territory was returned to Romania. The Kingdom of Dacia was in existence at least as early as the beginning of the 2nd century B.C.E. Thus, one writer suggests: the following causal mechanism: European integration has created conditions under which regional groups (e.g. As he subsequently extended his rule over Moldavia, Michael the Brave unified for the first time in history all the territories where Romanians lived, rebuilding the mainland of the ancient Kingdom of Dacia. Magyar Autonomy, An Issue Romania Needs To Deal With. Transylvania is rich in mineral resources, notably lignite, iron, lead, manganese, gold, copper, natural gas, salt and sulfur. The novel itself is inspired by folklore and superstition, which jested that the Count of the castle would skewer its enemies and suck their blood for sport. Transylvania is an ancient land, once the nucleus of the powerful Kingdom of Dacia. As a response to this policy, several peaceful movements of the Romanian Orthodox population advocated for freedom of worship for all the Transylvanian population, most notably being the movements led by Visarion Sarai, Nicolae Oprea Miclu and Sofronie of Cioara. Romania residents of the Hungarian dominated area claim that their interests are ignored by the local government, which, for example, distributes aid to church-run schools unevenly, while use of Hungarian by many institutions and clubs excludes them by default (many are not bilingual, partly because Hungarians do not encourage Romanians to learn Hungarian but complain when they Romanians can't speak the language. "[16] In fact, in sharp contrast to how many in Europe traditionally regarded Transylvania, as a place of "despots, vampires and werewolves," Transylvanians regard their homeland as "an enlightened place of religious tolerance, reform and learning."[17]. [8], The sixteenth century in Southeastern Europe was marked by the struggle between the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Catholic Habsburg Empire. Following this devastation, Transylvania was reorganized according to a class system of Estates, which established privileged groups (universitates) with power and influence in economic and political life, as well as along ethnic lines. Another novel featuring Transylvania is The Sight, by author David Clement-Davies. Hung. [18] The ethnic Hungarian population of Transylvania, largely composed of Szkely, form a majority in the counties of Covasna and Harghita. One of his descendants, Ahtum, was a duke of Banat and the last ruler who opposed to the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom in the eleventh century, but he was too, defeated by the Hungarian Crown. It has been emboldened by Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia, although unlike the Kosovars, the Szeklers are asking for autonomy within Romania rather than complete independence, leaving foreign policy and national defense in the hands of the government in Bucharest. At the beginning of the ninth century the Hungarian tribes were located in the north of the Black Sea. The area now constituting Transylvania was the political center of the ancient Kingdom of Dacia, where several important fortified cities were built; among them was the capital Sarmizegetusa, located near the current Romanian town of Hunedoara. Besides the Walachian eagle and the Moldavian auroch, Transylvania is here represented by two afronted lions holding a sword (elements referring to the Dacian Kingdom), standing upon seven hills. The Hungarian politician, Lszl Tks, one of the party leaders, is pressing for greater autonomy, saying that Romanian and Hungarian authorities have to reach an agreement regarding the statute of the Hungarian community, the Szeckler county respectively. Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism. However, within the empire, Transylvania "had a special legal status in which the nobility (including ethnic Hungarians and ethnic Romanians) were allowed to construct the legal systems and the local government structures". In addition to being known as the home of the original Vlad Dracula, Transylvania is known for being Romanias fourth largest region and is also home to a wide number of Romanias Heritage Sites listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site lists.