Wallachia_(disambiguation)

Wallachia (disambiguation)

Wallachia (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term


Wallachia (Walachia, Valachia, Valahia) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.

Wallachia may also refer to:

Places

Generally regions inhabited by the Wallachs or Vlachs:

  • "Bogdano-Wallachia" (Bogdan's Wallachia), "Small Vallachia", "Valachia Minor", "Moldo-Wallachia", "Maurovlachia", "Black Wallachia", "Moldovlachia", "Rousso-Vlachia", "L'otra Wallachia" (the "other Wallachia"), alternate names for Moldavia, a region in eastern Romania
  • Morlachia, a region in modern Croatia
  • Cisalpine Wallachia/Walachia Citeriore (also called "Vulaska", "Vlaska", "Valachia", "Vlaskozemski", Parvan vallachiam, etc.), alternate names for Banat, a region in south western Romania
  • Great Wallachia, a region in Thessaly, Greece
  • Greater Wallachia (Muntenia), a region in Romania east of the Olt River
  • Little Wallachia (disambiguation)
  • Lesser Wallachia (Oltenia), a region in Romania west of the Olt River
  • Moravian Wallachia (Valašsko in Czech), a region in the Beskid Mountains of Czechia
  • Old Wallachia (Stari Vlah), a region in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and southwestern part of Serbia
  • Sirmium Wallachia, a region on the Sava River
  • Upper Wallachia (Άνω Βλαχία, Áno Vlahía) in southern Macedonia, Albania and Epirus
  • Valahia Transalpina, a name for regions of Făgăraș and Hațeg
  • White Wallachia, a region in Moesia

Other regions with similar-sounding names include:

People

  • Ieremia Valahul (Italian: Geremia da Valacchia) (Jon Stoika, 1556–1625), Capuchin priest, born in Tzazo, Moldavia ("Vallachia Minor" or "Piccola Valacchia", i.e. Small Wallachia) Romania, beatified in 1983
  • Saint Blaise (Croatian: Sveti Vlaho, Greek: Agios Vlasios, died 316), patron saint of Dubrovnik, an Armenian martyr
  • Nicolaus Olahus (Latin for Nicholas, the Vlach; Hungarian: Oláh Miklós, Romanian: Nicolae Valahul, 1493–1568), Archbishop of Esztergom

See also


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