MagyarsHungarianslive in Transylvania at .least since the end of the ninth century. Historical research showed about 70 percent of the river and place names to be of Hungarian etymological origin. and only about 5 -percentof the same names have Rumanian origin. In the 13th century. as Transylvania remained an exposed outpost of the kingdom. the Hungarian kings settled German Saxons and accepted the first Rumanian immigrants from the south into Transylvania. How.ever. except in two counties. Rumanian mass immigration began only in the 16th and 17th centuries when Rumanians fled from the Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Valachia into Transylvania in the wake of Turkish raids. incessant civil wars. and cruel taxation by their Fanariot princes. The high altitudes and dense forests of the Carpathians provided a secure refuge for them. -and the Westernized state system offered a more humane and civilized life. Transylvania. however. failed to escape the Turkish wars either.
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