Muntenia

Muntenia

Greater Wallachia
Muntenia Greater Wallachia
Historical region of Romania
	Bucharest Târgoviște Peleș Castle Brăila Snagov Monastery Bucegi Mountains
	Coat of arms
	Muntenia
	Muntenia Location within Romania
Country	Romania
Largest city	Bucharest
Area
• Total	47,161 km2 (18,209 sq mi)
Population (2021 census)
• Total	5.921.110
Demonym	Muntenian/Wallachian
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Muntenia (Romanian pronunciation: [munˈteni.a], also known in English as Greater Wallachia) is a historical region of Romania, part of Wallachia (also, sometimes considered Wallachia proper, as Muntenia, Țara Românească, and the rarely used Valahia are synonyms in Romanian).^[1] It is situated between the Danube (south and east), the Carpathian Mountains (the Transylvanian Alps branch) and Moldavia (both north), and the Olt River to the west.^[2] The latter river is the border between Muntenia and Oltenia (or Lesser Wallachia). Part of the traditional border between Wallachia/Muntenia and Moldavia was formed by the rivers Milcov and Siret.^[3]

Geography

Constantin Lecca: "Moldavians and Muntenians become brothers"

Muntenia includes București - Ilfov, Sud - Muntenia, and part of the Sud-Est development regions. It consists of nine counties entirely:

And parts of four others:

Teleorman (the entire county with the exception of Islaz)
Vrancea (southern part)
Vâlcea (eastern part)
Olt (eastern part)

Romania's capital city, Bucharest, is situated in Muntenia. Other important cities are:

References

↑ Davidescu, Adriana AnaMaria; Apostu, Simona Andreea; Pantilie, Andra Madalina; Amzuica, Bogdan Florian (January 2020). "Romania's South-Muntenia Region, towards Sustainable Regional Development. Implications for Regional Development Strategies". Sustainability. 12 (14): 5799. Bibcode:2020Sust...12.5799D. doi:10.3390/su12145799. ISSN 2071-1050.
↑ Erwin Gáll; Réka Fülöp; Mihály Huba Hőgyes (2020). Sorin Forțiu (ed.). "Periferiile periferiilor?" [The peripheries of the peripheries?] (PDF). Arheovest Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie și Istorie (in Romanian). I (VIII). Timișoara, Szeged: Asociația ArheoVest, JATEPress Kiadó: 386. ISBN 978-963-315-464-9.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
↑ Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music. Margaret H. Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu, Anca Giurchescu. Lanham. 2016. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4422-6708-4. OCLC 950902131.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

External links

[1] Davidescu, Adriana AnaMaria; Apostu, Simona Andreea; Pantilie, Andra Madalina; Amzuica, Bogdan Florian (January 2020). "Romania's South-Muntenia Region, towards Sustainable Regional Development. Implications for Regional Development Strategies". Sustainability. 12 (14): 5799. Bibcode:2020Sust...12.5799D. doi:10.3390/su12145799. ISSN 2071-1050.

[2] Erwin Gáll; Réka Fülöp; Mihály Huba Hőgyes (2020). Sorin Forțiu (ed.). "Periferiile periferiilor?" [The peripheries of the peripheries?] (PDF). Arheovest Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie și Istorie (in Romanian). I (VIII). Timișoara, Szeged: Asociația ArheoVest, JATEPress Kiadó: 386. ISBN 978-963-315-464-9.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)

[3] Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music. Margaret H. Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu, Anca Giurchescu. Lanham. 2016. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4422-6708-4. OCLC 950902131.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

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v t e Historical regions in Romania
Banat (1918–)^a	Banat^h
Dobruja (1878–)	Northern Dobruja^c Southern Dobruja (1913–16; 1919–40)^d
Moldavia (1859–)^b	Bessarabia^e (1918–40; 1941–44) Budjak (1918–40; 1941–44) Bukovina (Southern Bukovina (1918–)^f; Northern Bukovina (1918–40; 1941–44)^f) Hertsa (1859–1940; 1941–44)^b Western Moldavia
Transylvania (1918–)^a^g	Crișana^h Maramureșⁱ Székely Land^j
Wallachia (1859–)^b	Muntenia Oltenia
^aDe jure since 1920 ^bDe jure since 1862 ^cDe jure ceded to Bulgaria and the Central Powers (except for the Danube Delta) between May 1918 and November 1919 ^dDe jure ceded to Bulgaria between May 1918 and November 1919 ^eSouthern Bessarabia in Romania (1859–78) ^fDe jure since 1919 ^gNorthern Transylvania in Hungary (1940–44) ^hOnly the eastern part ⁱOnly the southern part ^jTransylvania proper