Wallachia

American  

[wo-ley-kee-uh] / wɒˈleɪ ki ə /

Or Walachia

noun

1. a former principality in SE Europe: united with Moldova to form Romania in 1861. 29,569 sq. mi. (76,585 sq. km). Bucharest.

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Wallachia British  

/ wɒˈleɪkɪə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Walachia

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Other Word Forms

• Wallachian adjective

Example Sentences

At the center of Stoker’s research when writing “Dracula,” was a Romanian warlord named Vlad III who went by many other names: Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula and also Voivode of Wallachia.

From Salon

Vlad Dracula was a 15th Century ruler of Wallachia in Romania, an infamously brutal military leader who was said to impale his enemies.

From BBC

The peptides also allowed Pittalá's team to explore the wider context of Dracula's life as the environmental conditions of latter-year 15th century Wallachia.

From Salon

His sweating fist cantering across the surface of Romanian rag paper in swooping lines of 15th Century Latin as steadily as his armies swept through the Carpathian mountains, we know for certain that Vlad Drăculea — merciless defender of Wallachia, harbinger of an estimated 80,000 deaths — wept and bled into the very ink of his hand-written letters.

From Salon

We know for certain that Vlad Drăculea — merciless defender of Wallachia, harbinger of an estimated 80,000 deaths — wept and bled into the very ink of his hand-written letters.

From Salon