Where is Wallachia

and its answer...

Nobody asks where is Wallachia. Then what's the meaning of this page? You are here, aren't you? Because you are curious. And there are always curios people.

So! As you can see on the map, on this site Wallachia is the southern part of Romania between the Carpathians and the Danube River, marked with different shades of yellow.

The name of Wallachia comes from "vlah", a Slav origin word used for all Latin people of the Balkans. Transylvanians were called Hungro-Wallachians and Moldavian people were named Moldo-Wallachians.

The name used by Romanians for Wallachia is "The Romanian Land".

By a history and ethnographic point of view, Tulcea and Constanta counties form a different province, called Dobrogea. All the other counties are part of Wallachia, being divided into two provinces:

• Oltenia - Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinti and Valcea counties on the west side of Olt River
• Muntenia - Arges, Braila, Buzau, Calarasi, Dambovita, Giurgiu, Ilfov, Prahova and Teleorman counties, between Olt and Danube Rivers

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