place
Transylvania
also: Erdély, testvérhazánk
Transylvania (Hungarian: Erdély, 'testvérhazánk' meaning 'our sister-land') was the eastern Hungarian-inhabited region that formed a separate principality; in 'The Adventures' the narrator's grandfather had brought a Transylvanian bride home in the family's ancient coach.
Reading notes
- Tales (Five Stories) §3 Transylvania
Transylvania (Hungarian: Erdély, 'testvérhazánk' meaning 'our sister-land') was the eastern Hungarian-inhabited region that formed a separate principality; in 'The Adventures' the narrator's grandfather had brought a Transylvanian bride home in the family's ancient coach.
- Emperor Joseph (Apocryphal) §4 Transylvania
The eastern region of the Habsburg domain (now Romania), home to the Wallachian (Romanian) peasant population; the site of Horea's rebellion of 1784–85, which Madách uses as Ilona's place of doom.