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Transylvania

[ US /ˌtɹænsɪɫˈveɪnjə, ˌtɹænziɫˈveɪniə/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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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  • Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
  • He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
  • And where else in Cumbria can you raise a glass of perfectly chilled dry white wine from Transylvania? The Sun
  • One was Mario, a huge, excitable Italian — he was like a city policeman with operatic gestures — and the other, a hairy, uncouth animal whom we called the Magyar; I think he was a Transylvanian, or something even more remote. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • The extirpation of Protestantism was another favourite object of Austrian policy: and the cruelties perpetrated with this view by George Basta and the other imperial generals at the beginning of the century was such, that a general rising took place under Stephen Boczkai, then waiwode of Transylvania, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
  • And where else in Cumbria can you raise a glass of perfectly chilled dry white wine from Transylvania? The Sun
  • The icon refers not to the Transylvanian terror of lore but to the 15th-century feudal lord and mass murderer Vlad the Impaler, whose fiefdom was in Wallachia, a more southern region of Romania.
  • Plays and performances in ethnic-German communities in various parts of Bukovina (such as the town of Gura-Humorului), Banat, Transylvania and Bessarabia were mounted in the local Deutsche Gasthaus, or German guesthouse. Romanian Yiddish Theater.
  • La película se centra alrededor de un grupo de estudiante que se embarcan en un intercambio estudiantil por un semestre a Razvan en Transylvania. VAMPIROS DE CREPUSCULO Y OTROS FAMOSOS VAMPIROS SON PARODEADOS EN “TRANSYLMANIA” | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • The Transylvanian Alps in the central region contain the highest peak, Mount Moldoveanu.
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