TRANSYLVANIA

TRANSYLVANIA is a region in central part of Romania. It is a tableland enclosed NE. and South by the Carpathians, contains wide tracts of forests, and is one-half under tillage or in pasture; yields large crops of grain and a variety of fruits, and has mines of gold, silver, copper, iron, &c., though the manufactures and trade are insignificant; the population consists of Roumanians, Hungarians, and Germans.

It was formerly the eastern division of the Austrian Empire and was united to Hungary in 1868.