Wallachia (disambiguation)
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Wallachia (Walachia, Valachia, Valahia) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.
Wallachia may also refer to:
Places
[edit]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
- Imperial Wallachia, the name used for Oltenia under Habsburg occupation (1718–1739)
- 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:
- Wallacea, a grouping Indonesian islands
- Wallacia, New South Wales
- Kingdom of Wallachia, a micronation
People
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Oláh (surname)
- Vlach, a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
- Volokh (disambiguation), an alternate spelling (East Slavic)
- Wallach (disambiguation)
- Wallack
- Wallich, an unrelated, but phonetically similar name
- Night of Walachia, the main antagonist of Melty Blood
- Walchia, a fossil plant genus
- Wallacea, a group of islands mainly in Indonesia
- Wallacia (disambiguation)