Transylvania
About Transylvania
Transylvania is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. The region's natural border to the east and south is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west it is the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Historical Transylvania also includes small parts of neighbouring Western Moldavia and a small part of south-western neighbouring Bukovina to its north-east.
On the show — 26 mentions total
There's the Salina Turda salt mine, which is this huge salt mine. It was a salt mine until 1932. It's in the biggest city in Transylvania.
from No Such Thing As Samurai Olaf, 2016-04-08 at 00:27:05 · read transcript
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This is from, well, we think it's from the disaster century, whatever it's called, the crisis century in the Roman period, which was like the third century when it was all falling to pieces and there were sort of 1900 emperors. The reason he's only just come to light is because there were these coins found in Transylvania in the 1700s, which were assumed to be fake and people looked at them and said they're for trees. Sorry, Canandi, can you say these coins were found in Transylvania please? These coins were found in Transylvania.
532: No Such Thing As 'Is It Mushroom?', 2024-05-23 · listen
This is from, well, we think it's from the disastrous century, whatever it's called, the crisis century in the Roman period, which was like the third century when it was all falling to pieces and there were sort of 1900 emperors. The reason he's only just come to light is because there were these coins found in Transylvania in the 1700s, which were assumed to be fake and people looked at them as in the four trees. Can Andy, can you say these coins were found in Transylvania, please? These coins were found in Transylvania.
No Such Thing As 'Is It Mushroom?', 2024-05-23 · listen
He died in 2011. At the age of, I think about 99, he was really at old when he died. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor was dissolved when he was, I think about seven years old. He was officially the King of Hungary in Bohemia, Grand Prince of Transylvania. That's a good one. It is a pretty good one. His name was Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatis Ludwig Guy N.
434: No Such Thing As Robinson Two-Soe, 2022-07-08 · listen
That's in Turda, yeah. The edict of Turda is quite a famous thing, which is, I think it was a kind of thing where it meant that in Transylvania everyone was allowed to have any religion they wanted, and it was one of the first places in the world that had this. I have this theory that that's why kind of people think of Transylvania as kind of this weird, kind of Gothic place, because the Catholic Church saw that it was a place where anyone could have any religion they wanted, and they kind of didn't like it.
No Such Thing As Samurai Olaf, 2016-04-08 · listen
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