Walachia
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A four-day road trip in southern Walachia and the central province of Transylvania offered multiple glimpses of the country’s allure.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2018
Radu Jude’s Romanian western — a wide-screen, black-and-white epic set in the mountains of Walachia in the mid-19th century — was barely released in the United States, which is a shame for several reasons.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2016
Shot in silvery black-and-white, the film is set in Walachia, a region of southern Romania, in 1835 — a mere 21 years before the nation would outlaw slavery.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2016
It’s 1835, in the principality of Walachia, a northern region of what is not yet Romania that resembles the territory of a classic western.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2016
In the early nineteenth century the Latinist movement of Transylvania spread into Moldavia and Walachia and began to Romanianize the hitherto Hellenic culture of the Romanian upper class.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.
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