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  2. List of Transylvanian Saxons - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Haltrich, author of fairytales/stories for children from the Transylvanian Saxon folklore; Dutz Schuster, writer and poet; Oskar Pastior, poet; Dr. Misch Orend, author, "Kruge und Teller", and other works about Transylvania

  3. List of Transylvanians - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Saxon soldier, last military leader of the Austro-Hungarian Army; Miklós Bánffy, Hungarian nobleman, politician, and novelist. Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer; Elek Benedek, Hungarian journalist and writer; István Bethlen, was a Hungarian aristocrat, statesman, Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931.

  4. Category:Transylvanian Saxon people - Wikipedia

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    Articles about people who were Transylvanian Saxons, people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the late Modern Age (specifically mid-19th century).

  5. Transylvanian Saxons - Wikipedia

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    Today, relatively few still live in Romania, where the second last official census (carried out in 2011) indicated 36,042 Germans, out of which only 11,400 were of Transylvanian Saxon descent. [16] As per the latest Romanian census conducted in 2022, they are even fewer, as other sub-groups of the entire German community in Romania as well.

  6. Category:People from Transylvania - Wikipedia

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    Transylvanian School (8 P) Pages in category "People from Transylvania" ... This page was last edited on 12 February 2021, at 13:41 (UTC).

  7. List of Transylvanian Saxon localities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of localities in Transylvania that were, either in majority or in minority, historically inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons, having either churches placed in refuge castles for the local population (German: Kirchenburg = fortress church or Wehrkirche = fortified church), or only village churches (German: Dorfkirchen) built by the Transylvanian Saxons.

  8. Transylvanian Saxon culture - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.

  9. Historical names of Transylvania - Wikipedia

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    The first Hungarian form recorded was Erdeuelu (12th century, in the Gesta Hungarorum) while the first Romanian form recorded was in 1432 as Ardeliu. [1] [2] The initial a/e difference between the names can be found in other Hungarian loans in Romanian, such as Hungarian egres ‘gooseberry’ → Romanian agriș, agreș, as well as in placenames, e.g., Egyed, Erdőd, Erdőfalva, Esküllő → ...