Transylvania is a region in central Romania populated by over 3 million inhabitants from various ethnic groups including Romanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Serbs, and Roma. The landscape is dominated by the Carpathian mountains and plateau and features towns, villages, and fortified churches displaying the architectural styles of each ethnic population. The region has a long history involving conquest and occupation by various empires but was unified with Romania in 1918.

1. Transylvania

2. Transylvania –
multicultural region
• The nam of the region com from
e es
the Latin Trans Silva ( the land
beyond the forests)
• The main form of relief is the plateau,
surrounded by the Carpathian
m ountains with hills, depressions and
crossed by numberless rivers.
• The population in the area is over 3
m illion inhabitants who live in cities,
towns or villages, each having its own
specific architecture.

3. Transylvania – multicultural region
Ethnic Transylvania is a mosaic of Romanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Serbs,
Gypsies and Jews - each of these populations m anifested their cultural identities
in the structure of villages, architecture in towns and the way of life.

4. Transylvania- short history
• First there were the Dacians who reached a high level of material and spiritual
culture
• Conquered by the Roman Empire in 107
• The Magyar tribes first entered the region in the 8th century when they settled
the Pannonian plain.
• In the 12th and 13th centuries, the areas in the south and northeast were settled by
German colonists called (then and now) Saxons, with the purpose of securing the
borders.
• The Hungarian Kingdom the Ottoman and Austrian Em
, pires occupied this land
one after the other.
• In 1918 that Transylvania joins Romania, which reunites for the first tim in
e
what Rom anians consider its natural borders.

5. Ethnic Transylvania
Hungarians, Saxons, Romanians, Swabs, Jews, Roma, etc .

6. The Szekely population

8. The Szekely writing

9. The Szekely gates

10. Traditional Szekely gate

11. Traditional Szekely gate

12. Traditional Szekely gate

14. Traditional
Szekely
Kurtoskalacs

15. Szekely dishes

16. The Saxon land

18. Fortified churches

19. Biertan - Fortified Church

20. Biertan - Fortified Church

21. Biertan
Church
Tower

22. Prejmer
Fortified
church

23. Harman
Fortified Church

24. Brasov

25. The Bran Castle

27. The Bran Castle

28. SIGHISOARA
citadel

29. SIGHISOARA

31. THE MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL

33. SIBIU

34. SIBIU

35. SIBIU

37. SIBIU- the Capital of Culture

42. • Rimetea Around Cluj
UNESCO
Heritage

43. Turda - Salt mine

44. Apuseni
mountains
• Rural civilisation
• Picturesque landscapes
• Natural protected areas
• Caves and conserved areas