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transylvania

tran zeel vay nee uh

  • n  a historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country by the Transylvanian Alps; originally part of Hungary; incorporated into Romania at the end of World War I
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  • Viktor Orban in Budapest Times
    We are not just sending representatives from southern Slovakia, Transylvania and Hungary: there will be a combined Hungarian representation in Brussels,Orbán said. "I see a future in which nations will be more important than country...
  • Gene Wilder in San Francisco Chronicle
    Transylvania was heaven,Wilder told a packed house at the Castro Theatre on Wednesday night, and he didn't want the mad-scientist make-believe world to end.
  • Elie Wiesel in European Jewish Press
    This fascination goes back to my childhood, in Transylvania, before the war. On Shabbat my sisters used to bring sweets to patients in the hospital, and my father visited the prisons,Wiesel says. "One day, he took me with him to the asylum...

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