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Transilvania (Romania : Province) CercaDefinizione
Romanian province in the interwar era. It covered most of historic Transylvania excluding the western and northern portions. The latter constituted a separate province known as Crisana-Maramures. Transylvania is separated in the south from Walachia by the Transylvanian Alps, in the east from Moldavia and Bukovina by the Moldavian Carpathians. Banatul, Crisana, and Maramures lie along its southwestern, western, and northern borders. Being partially populated by Romanians, Transylvania was never in modern times part of the Romanian state. The unification of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom came into being in December 1918. The representatives of the Romanian population convened on the congress in Alba Iulia (December 1918) and proclaimed their union with Romania. The Treaty of Trianon (1920) effected its final incorporation into the Romanian state. During interwar years there was considerable unrest among local nationalities. In accordance with the "Second Vienna Award" (August 1940) brokered by Germany and Italy, Romania lost north central Transylvania to Hungary. After World War II Romania regained the whole of Transylvania. The Hungarian-annexed north-central part of Transylvania had been liberated by Soviet and Romanian troops in the fall of 1944. In the interwar era, Transylvania as a province was bordered by Oltenia and Muntenia to the south, Banatul to the west, Crisana-Maramures to the northwest, and Moldova to the east.
Capital: Cluj
The province of Transylvania consisted of 16 counties: Alba, Brasov, Ciuc, Cluj, Fagaras, Hunedoara, Mures, Nasaud, Odorhei, Salaj, Sibiu, Somes, Târnava-Mare, Târnava-Mica, Trei-Scaune, and Turda.
North central Transylvania was made a part of Hungary in 1940 and remained so until 1944. The Romanian cities of this annexed territory are: Oradea, Salonta, Marghita, Carei, Simleu-Silvaniei, Huedin, Zalau, Jibou, Satu-Mare, Halmeu, Baia-Mare, Sighet, Cavnic, Targu-Lapus, Dej, Cluj, Beclean, Viseu de Sus, Borsa, Rodna, Nasaud, Bistrita, Reghin, Targu-Mures, Odorhei, Sfintu-Gheorghe, Miercurea-Ciuc, Gheorgheni, Toplita. (en-US)
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Library of Congress: Division of Maps. Handkarte von Rumänien. 1: 1,000.000. Wien: Kartographische Anstalt G. Freytag and Berndt A.G., n.d.