Tag: Transylvania

A Brief History Of The Transylvanian Saxon Dialect

The Transylvanian Saxon dialect is a rather old and conservative dialect of the German language that was mainly spoken in Transylvania, central Romania prior to 1989, before most of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated abroad (it is still spoken there but in considerably smaller numbers than it used to be), most notably to unified Germany but…


The History Of The Transylvanian Saxon Citadel Of Schäßburg

Sch쎤쎟burg is a very well preserved medieval town located in Transylvania, central Romania. In Romanian it is known as Sighi좙oara and in Hungarian as Segesv쎡r. In the Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Sch쎤쎟burg is known under the names Sch쎤sbrich and 얠esbur쾇. This medieval settlement was also known in Latin as ‘Castrum Sex‘, given the fact that it…