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/ˌtɹænsɪɫˈveɪnjə, ˌtɹænziɫˈveɪniə/
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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
How To Use Transylvania In A Sentence
- 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
- This explanation for the venerable, 400-year-old vampire population of Transylvania being so numerically insignificant is, however, contradicted by Van Helsing's earlier rhapsodies on the subject.
- He then tried Transylvania, attempting to convert to his views the antitrinitarian Bishop Dávid. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
- 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
- (Then caught some movie: blood an 'suckin'; Stoker-y; Lon Chaney-er) (The sick vid was abhorrent: killin 'chicks in Transylvania) Latest amIright Song Parodies
- Sometimes a Hungarian principality, Transylvania was primarily a part of the Hungarian Empire.
- The next two cases (21, 22) are devoted to the varieties of common quartz, including the flexible sandstones of Brazil (of which there are some larger specimens upon a separate table) and to those of the east; milk quartz; the Salzburg blue quartz, &c.; some varieties of the cat's eye; hornstones, including wood changed into hornstone: and herein begin the flints, including some specimens changing into calcedony, smalt blue calcedony from Transylvania; the Icelandic stalactical calcedony; and the fine Cornish calcedony. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
- The opening of the Wilderness Road enabled the founding of the first settlements in Kentucky, including Transylvania Colony--which became Boonesboro--Harrod's Town and Benjamin Logan's.
- As a result of fierce Hungarian onslaughts from the north, Bulgaria lost important territories beyond the Danube, including the rich Transylvania.
- Northern Italian polenta (or Romanian mamaliga, just about the same thing - my grandparents were born in Transylvania, so this is comfort food for me) Page 4
