Transilvania pe Harta de la Hereford (sec. XIII)
Transylvania on the Hereford Map (XIII th century)

Summary/Abstract: This study concerns the problem of Transylvania’s alleged mentioning in the thirteenth century map from the Hereford cathedral. The Romanian scholar M. Popescu-Spineni (1938) , and later on A. Armbruster (1969), have read on this map the expression Dacia - hec 7 oppidum as testifying the name of the medieval Transylvania, and, further, its identification with ancient Dacia. This would have been, accordingly, one of the first mentions of this country (septem Castra in Latin, Siebenbürgen in German: ‘The Land of the Seven Cities’), and its first association with Dacia. But they are definitely wrong, since Popescu-Spineni’s reading was both erroneous and incompletely.

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