Wallachia (region)
Coordinates: 44 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E
The Wallachia , Romanian outdated Valahia ; Țara Românească or Țara Rumânească ( German for 'Romanian Land' ) is a historical landscape in the south of today's Romania .
Wallachia, as a historical landscape, is made up of Little Wallachia ( Oltenia ) in the west and Great Wallachia ( Muntenia ) in the east.
History of Wallachia
For the origin of the word see Wallachia . For the history of Wallachia see Principality of Wallachia .
geography
Wallachia is bordered in the north by the Southern Carpathians and in the south by the Danube , which is also the border with Bulgaria . The river Olt divides it into the Great Wallachia ( Muntenia ) in the east and the Little Wallachia ( Oltenia ) in the west. The Wallachian Plain merges into the Getic Plateau and this in turn merges into the Getic Subcarpathian Mountains .
The largest city in Wallachia is the Romanian capital, Bucharest .
Other uses of the term Wallachia
The Romanian-speaking areas of Greece were also called Wallachia, see Megalovlachia . The Moravian Wallachia ( Czech Valassko ) got its name from the late Middle Ages immigrant Vlachs , which were not fully assimilated.
In some regions of Germany and Austria, Wallachia is also used colloquially as an expression for a distant region or an abandoned, inhospitable area, literally as it is real (from a German or Austrian perspective): behind the Carpathian Mountains . In this sense, Wallachia is the unachieved destination of the journey in the also filmed novel Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf .
Walchwil , a municipality in the canton of Zug , is given the name Wallachia during the carnival there .
See also
- History of romania
- List of historical regions in Romania and the Republic of Moldova
- Wallachian lowlands
- gelding
literature
- anonymous: Curious description of The Moldau and Wallachey / where the same condition and condition, borders, camps, cities and castles, the local customs, religion, and other ceremonies (...). 1699 ( digitized version )
- Rudolf Lindau: Wallachia and Moldova in terms of history, nature of the country, constitution, social condition and customs of the inhabitants . Dresden / Leipzig 1829 ( digitized version )
