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Holten, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Lunca Mureșului, Mureș County) 60 ethnic Hungarians: Civilians [3]: 424 Hațeg massacre: October 1848: Wallenthal, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Hațeg, Hunedoara County) 15 ethnic Hungarians: Civilians massacred on the order of the Romanian ...
The events of the Ip massacre escalated in the early hours of 14 September 1940, in Ipp, (today Ip, Sălaj County), Northern Transylvania.After two Hungarian soldiers died there in an accidental explosion, rumors spread that they had been killed by Romanians.
Other sources put the number of Romanian peasants shot dead at 14, with 50 other wounded, many of whom subsequently died. [28] This was the first Transylvanian armed conflict in 1848. An important strategic step of Anton von Puchner in the days leading up to the clash was his specific choice for a Székely Hungarian regiment to be sent against ...
Hungary protested against the new state borders, as they did not follow the real ethnic boundaries, for over 1.3 or 1.6 million Hungarian people, representing 25.5 or 31.6% of the Transylvanian population (depending on statistics used), [71] [72] were living on the Romanian side of the border, mainly in the Székely Land of Eastern Transylvania ...
The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș (also called Black March, Hungarian: Fekete Március) [1] refer to incidents between the Hungarians and Romanians in Târgu Mureș and surrounding settlements in Transylvania, Romania in March 1990. The clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania. [2]
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77.
[3] [4] For example, in 2007 the Council of Europe estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania, [5] based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people [6]) and the highest estimate (1.8 to 2.5 million people [7]) available at the time. This figure is equivalent to 8.32% of the population.
Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania.It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the 9th century First Bulgarian Empire.