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[ˏtrænsil'veiniә,- njә]
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    transylvania
    [ noun ]
    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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    1. Some rulers during Hungary's historical domination of Transylvania, it's true, also practiced harsh nationalization on their Romanian subjects, but the effect of these activities never equaled what is happening under the current totalitarian system.
    2. Cluj-Napoca is in Transylvania in northwestern Romania, where most of that country's 1.7 million ethnic Hungarians live. Hungarians know it as Kolozsvar.
    3. At United Nations headquarters in New York, a Hungarian diplomat said Wednesday that Hungary has appealed for U.N. help to protect the rights of Hungarians in Romania and is pressing for Security Council action to halt ethnic violence in Transylvania.
    4. The bright, painted houses the Germans leave behind either fall into ruin or are taken by a fast-growing Gypsy population that adds a new element to Transylvania's ethnic mix.
    5. This was evident in an outbreak of vicious street violence earlier this month between ethnic Hungarians and Romanians in the province of Transylvania.
    6. The emotional attachment to "Erdely" _ Hungarian for Transylvania _ and Ceausescu's harassment of ethnic Hungarians prompted Hungary, before the revolution, to lead international condemnation of a Warsaw Pact ally.
    7. Vice President Cazimir Ionescu said leaflets distributed by the fascist Iron Guard had caused the fighting by falsely claiming that the Hungarian minority centered in Transylvania is seeking political autonomy.
    8. Indeed, National Merit Scholarship winners at Transylvania outnumber those at some schools 20 times its size.
    9. Indeed, in recent years, many among the Hungarian and Western intelligentsia have been bringing increasing pressure on Budapest, particularly at Helsinki review conferences, to speak up on Transylvania.
    10. Underneath, in heavy black type, appeared a full-page advertisement inveighing "against the gross distortions of the history of Transylvania and, hence of the history of the Romanian people."
    11. Romanians and Hungarians have been in Transylvania more than 1,000 years, and Hungarian kings ruled the territory in the Middle ages.
    12. In neighboring Hungary, feelings ran high because as many as 1.7 million ethnic Hungarians live in Transylvania in the western part of Romania.
    13. Transylvania was ruled by Hungary for centuries before being ceded to Romania after World War I. Hungary annexed the province during World War II, but it was returned to Romania when the war ended.
    14. Among those scheduled for trial this week is Ceausescu's playboy son Nicu, who was Communist Party boss of Sibiu, a city in Transylvania, Robu said in an interview carried by the official news agency Rompress.
    15. Romanian leaders have consistently felt that only the creation of an ethnically homogeneous Romanian state can make Transylvania secure as part of Romania.
    16. Crimes have been committed by both sides over the centuries as Transylvania, a region rich in fertile land and minerals, repeatedly changed hands.
    17. The two nations also have disputed control of Transylvania, which is under control of Romania.
    18. Hungary had ruled Transylvania for centuries, although Romanians were in the majority.
    19. Transylvania University, a small liberal arts school in Lexington, Ky., thinks it holds the drawing card to woo the nation's best and brightest college professors: money.
    20. Laszlo, scion of a noble Hungarian family, leaves Transylvania to study medicine in Paris.
    21. Seventy years after Romania gained the region of Transylvania from Hungary, the two neighbors are still bickering over treatment of the 1.7 million ethnic Hungarians who live in the fictional homeland of Count Dracula.
    22. Hungary claims that under Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the culture of Transylvania's estimated 2 million Hungarians, Europe's largest ethnic minority, is systematically being squeezed out of existence.
    23. Transylvania was part of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I the region was ceded to Romania.
    24. Romania's crackdown drew protest from other countries including Hungary, which has long been at odds with Bucharest over the treatment of the 1.7 million ethnic Hungarian minority in Romania, most of whom live in Transylvania.
    25. "Part of education is having someone from San Francisco or of another race or social background as your roommate," says Transylvania's president, Charles Shearer.
    26. Romania's decision Tuesday to close the general consulate in Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania came in retaliation for an anti-Romanian rally in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, on Monday night.
    27. Also, Mrs. Nagy often has visiting mouths to feed because her husband is a Hungarian from Transylvania, in neighboring Romania, and the revolution there has given his relatives freedom to travel.
    28. Both claim that Transylvania is the area where their nations were first settled, and they have squabbled over the region for decades.
    29. Sibiu, a city in southern Transylvania that was ruled by Ceausescu's son, Nicu, was the site of the first trials of members of the Securitate.
    30. Hungary ruled Transylvania for hundreds of years before 1920, when the victorious allied powers of World War I transferred it to Romania in return for help during the war.
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