Carpathian Mountains
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The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central and Southeast Europe. Roughly 1,500 km long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ur
Tatra Mountains – Morskie Oko, Mięguszowiecki Summits, Cubryna, Mnich
The Eastern Carpathians as 'Alpes Bastarnice' on Tabula Peutingeriana
Hutsul people, living in the Carpathian mountains, c. 1872
View of Tatry from Bukowina Tatrzańska, Poland
Transylvania
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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 t
Carpathian Mountains
…orographically and geologically distinctive groups. The northwestern Carpathians begin in Slovakia and southern Poland. They surround Transcarpathia and Transylvania in a large semicircle, sweeping towards the southeast, and end on the Danube near Orșova in Romania. The total length of the Carpathians is over 1,500…
Kingdom of Hungary in 1190, during the rule of Béla III
Roman city of Apulum
A market scene in Transylvania, 1818
The National Assembly in Alba Iulia (December 1, 1918), declaring the Union of Transylvania with Romania