transylvania = hungarian or romanian???

[Óttar]

I've always associated Transylvania with Vlad Tepes, Dracula. Therefore, imo, Transylvania is Romanian.

[Nurzat]

Romania was built on very different regions, it was after the 1862 annexation of Moldova and 1918 annexation of Transylvania and mostly after WW2 by the Communists that the country was leveled to a common identity, especially with displacing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people from one region to another, to mix them. of course Romanians now will say Romania is a unitary thing, and it probably became such, but they should bear in mind that this only happened a few decades ago, while first each region had its own specific language/dialect, faces and history as a separate political division, in a word a separate identity.

so I won't say Transylvania is historically Hungarian, but I'll say each region has the right to decide for itself and someday maybe Moldova and Transylvania will resume independence, once the effects of Romanian nationalist-communist propaganda are gone.

and then, most of the things Transylvanians brag about were built by Hungarians and Germans, and when you look at the demographics of the urban areas before the region was Romania's you'll see Romanians were a tiny minority in most towns if not all.

[ixulescu]

and then, most of the things Transylvanians brag about were built by Hungarians and Germans, and when you look at the demographics of the urban areas before the region was Romania's you'll see Romanians were a tiny minority in most towns if not all.

We cannot talk about towns in modern sense in Transylvania until 1800s, and everywhere in Romania for that matter.
All medieval towns but the current capital were not much larger than a village (about 10,000 people). Also medieval towns required support of peasant population, which was invited to settle in villages around towns. These villages became part of the towns by 1900s. This is how German and Hungarian towns in 1800s became suddenly majority Romanian by 1920 - many of the actual neighborhoods of these towns were not counted towards the overall population of the towns prior 1920.

[grecoroman]

100% romanian

[Zeus]

whatever country the people of said region wish to be a part of.... the governed must consent to the state which they will belong to.... and in these territorial disputes we must defer to the will of the people that occupy the region

[Daco Celtic]

Romania was built on very different regions, it was after the 1862 annexation of Moldova and 1918 annexation of Transylvania and mostly after WW2 by the Communists that the country was leveled to a common identity, especially with displacing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people from one region to another, to mix them. of course Romanians now will say Romania is a unitary thing, and it probably became such, but they should bear in mind that this only happened a few decades ago, while first each region had its own specific language/dialect, faces and history as a separate political division, in a word a separate identity.

so I won't say Transylvania is historically Hungarian, but I'll say each region has the right to decide for itself and someday maybe Moldova and Transylvania will resume independence, once the effects of Romanian nationalist-communist propaganda are gone.

and then, most of the things Transylvanians brag about were built by Hungarians and Germans, and when you look at the demographics of the urban areas before the region was Romania's you'll see Romanians were a tiny minority in most towns if not all.

So throw Transylvanian Romanians down the well so Transylvania can be free?

[Benyzero]

It belongs to romania, they stole it tho.

[Daco Celtic]

If Romanians and Hungarians put away their differences and created a hybrid race in Transylvania would much of this ethnic tension go away? Or is that too unthinkable?

[Egyvalaki]

Basically it belongs to the people who lives there, romanians, hungarians etc. But actually it's part of Romania, so now it's belongs there.

[Rugius]

Austria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_Saxons