Below are 10 interesting facts which you might like to know on the medieval Seat Fortress of Suceava, situated in one of the former capitals of the Principality of Moldavia, namely Suceava, the county seat of the namesake county from the historical regions of Bukovina and Moldavia in northeastern Romania and one of the most…
The Teutonic Knights (or the Teutonic Order) were one of the most important military-religious chivalric orders of the Late Middle Ages in Central Europe and significant large parts of Eastern and Northeastern Europe respectively. As such, the Teutonic Knights had an important territorial foothold in the area around the Baltic Sea in the contemporary Baltic…
The Transylvanian Saxon fortified church of Heldsdorf/H쒃lchiu is one of the most beautiful and picturesque of its kind in Transylvania (or Siebenb쎼rgen as the region is known in German as well as Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect), central Romania. It is situated in the village of H쒃lchiu (known in German as Heldsdorf and in…
The Transylvanian Saxon fortified church of Tartlau (known in Romanian as Prejmer) is one of the most well known of its kind. It was initially built by the Teutonic Knights but, after they were subsequently evicted by the Hungarian monarch Andrew II in 1225, it was subsequently taken over by the Catholic order of the…
The medieval Neam좛 Fortress (known in Romanian as Cetatea Neam좛 or Cetatea Neam좛ului) is one of the most imposing medieval landmarks and citadels on the territory of Romania. This enduring stronghold was built during the late 14th century in the time of Petru I Mu좙at (and was first mentioned in a medieval document issued by…
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