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Northern Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania de Nord, Hungarian: Észak-Erdély) was the region of the Kingdom of Romania that during World War II, as a consequence of the August 1940 territorial agreement known as the Second Vienna Award, became part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
The Nușfalău massacre occurred in the village of Szilágynagyfalu (today Nușfalău, Sălaj County, Romania) in Northern Transylvania.It happened on 8 September 1940, when a Hungarian soldier with the support of some natives tortured and killed eleven people (two women and nine men) of Romanian ethnicity from a nearby village, who were passing through the area.
The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana, from the Kingdom of Romania to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Mavis Dracula-Loughran (voiced by Selena Gomez as an adult in the films, Sadie Sandler as a child in the first film, Victoria Gomez as a child in the fourth film, Melissa Sturm in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures and Bryn McAuley in the TV series) is the daughter of Count Dracula and Martha, born in 1894.
The Dej ghetto was one of the Nazi-era ghettos for European Jews during World War II.It was located in the city of Dej (Hungarian: Dés) in Cluj County, Transylvania, now part of Romania but administered as part of Szolnok-Doboka County by the Kingdom of Hungary from the 1940 Second Vienna Award's grant of Northern Transylvania until late 1944.
Gelou. Statuary in Gilău, Romania First page of the lone manuscript preserving the text of the Gesta Hungarorum, the only chronicle which mentions Gelou. Gelou (Romanian: Gelu; Hungarian: Gyalu) was the Vlach ruler of Transylvania at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around 900 AD, according to the Gesta Hungarorum.
In 1940, Northern Transylvania reverted to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award, but it was returned to Romania after the end of World War II. In popular culture, Transylvania is commonly associated with vampires because of the influence of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and the many subsequent books and films that the story has ...
Northern Transylvania came under the control of Soviet and Romanian forces in 1944, [8] [9] [10] and were confirmed as part of Romania by the Paris Peace Treaties signed 1947 after World War II. Under the name Magyar Autonomous Region , with Târgu Mureș as capital, [ 11 ] parts of the Székely Land enjoyed a certain level of autonomy between ...