Transylvania: Place where Sky meets with Earth. The Wooden Church Reghin 1725 A.D. by Petru Russu (Petru Rusu)

Transylvania: Place where Sky meets with Earth. The Wooden Church Reghin 1725 A.D.

Petru Russu (Petru Rusu)
66 pages
World of Art Books
Aug 2003
Hardcover
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Documentation from the year 1228 indicates that the town was originally incorporated during the reign of Saint Louis, sometime between the years 1077 and 1095 A.D, using the name Saxon-Reghin. The earliest population was of Saxon-German descent. However, an influx of Hungarian and Romanian workers to the region increased the size of the town significantly as these newcomers settled on the outskirts of the municipality in areas that came to be known as The Maiers. It was here, at the margins of the newfound settlements that the Romanian population of Reghin built a small church for themselves in 1725 ... the Gabriel Patrol Angels wooden church from the Transylvania town of Reghin. Transylvania was first referred to in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning literally 'through the woods'; or 'beyond the woods', Transylvania is quite large, taking up about a third of Romania, bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, region of Central Europe. Despite its long history and rich culture, it is chiefly associated in the world with Dracula(!) . In its ancient history, the territory of Transylvania belonged to a variety of empires and states, including the Celts, Scythians, the Kingdom of Dacia and the Roman Empire ...

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