Wallachia

Wallachia (Romanian: Tara Tara Românească or Rumânească, German about " Romanian Land" ) is a historical region in the south of present-day Romania.

Wallachia, as a historical landscape, made ​​up of the Lesser Wallachia (Romanian: Oltenia ) in the west and the Great Wallachia (Romanian: Muntenia ) in the East.

History of Wallachia

For the etymology see Vlachs. History of the Principality of Wallachia Wallachia see.

Geography

Wallachia is bounded on the north by the Southern Carpathians, and to the south of the Danube, which is the border with Bulgaria at the same time. The river Olt she shares in the Great Wallachia ( Muntenia ) in the east and the Little Wallachia ( Oltenia ) in the west. The largest city of Wallachia, the Romanian capital Bucharest.

Other use of the term Wallachia

Also, the Romanian-speaking areas of Greece bore the name Wallachia, see Megalovlachia. The Moravian Wallachia ( Czech Wallachia ) got its name from the migration of the late Middle Ages Vlachs, which were only partially assimilated.

In some regions of Germany and Austria Wallachia is colloquially used as a term for a region far away or abandoned inhospitable area.