These days I am based in the small medieval town of Sibiu in the heart of Transylvania.
It can give rise to some unusual requests even on this side of Transylvania.
He is known to be a big fan of Romania's Transylvania region and its rural traditions.
He grew up in Hazard, in southeastern Kentucky, and went to Transylvania University in Lexington.
But as soon as you mention Transylvania, it means just one thing to people: Dracula.
Like many rural corners of Europe, Transylvania has a tradition of oral storytelling that stretches back centuries.
On our way home through Transylvania, we stopped at the mock Dracula castle for a quick bite.
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Sony's film division made a profit, thanks to the success of movies such as Skyfall and Hotel Transylvania.
He protected Transylvania against the threat of Ottoman invasion and ensured the survival of our own indigenous culture.
According to Daniel Fulks, an accounting professor at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky.
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Hungary between the first and second world wars laid political claim to Transylvania.
But superstitions such as these are still a fundamental part of everyday life in Transylvania, even after decades under Communist rule.
An encounter with orthodox Jews in Transylvania focused on a reading, which thrilled him, of the Song of Miriam in Hebrew.
In Romania's Transylvania he's about to get his hands dirty and experience for himself, the pride and joy of actually building something.
The action stretches from their native Canada to Transylvania, via Japan and Stonehenge (the last being an obvious must-see for any druid-haired rocker).
Many houses are still protected by ornate kapu, the distinctive carved wooden gateways which were imported to Transylvania by Saxon settlers over eight centuries ago.
Americans in general still have trouble thinking of a gypsy as a member of an ethnic group, rather than a stock character in a film set in Transylvania.
Hilton is also a suspect in the slaying of Irene Bryant and the presumed death of her husband, John, in October, said Transylvania County, North Carolina, Sheriff David Mahoney.
It flourished in 17th-century Transylvania (today mostly Romanian, but the fringe of what was then an autonomous principality is within Hungary), and it was long a bastion of feeling against Austrian Habsburg rule.
Viscri's glory is its stunning white medieval church (which gives the place its name) within a high-walled 12th-century citadel which like 100 or so other such German fortifications in Transylvania fended off Turks and Tatars as well as occasionally warring locals.
He was only one of 15, 000 ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania who left Romania that year, but Attila stood out--he pulled off his escape in true Hollywood fashion by clinging to the undercarriage of a moving train as it crossed the border.
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