Transylvania’s abandoned Saxon villages were gradually repopulated by Romanians, who often had no connection to the region’s 800-year-old history.

Travel - The 13th edition of Haferland Week, one of the most vibrant cultural festivals in Transylvania, kicks off on July 31 ...

The richest and most generous man in Germany, Hasso Platner, was born in Berlin in 1944, in a family of Transylvanian Saxon doctors from Sibiu, Romania. They had left Romania accompanying German ...

In the village of Gârbova in the Transylvania region of Romania, the old customs of the local ethnic Germans, the "Transylvanian Saxons," guarantee harmony in the community. But now there is ...

The group is this year’s participant in the Transylvanian Saxons Cultural Exchange Program, which is part of the mission of the Federation of Transylvanian Saxons. The Federation is made up of Saxons ...

Play The Anatolian carpets that were kept for hundreds of years in the churches of the Transylvanian Saxons and are in the collection of the museum in Izmir, Turkey will be able to be admired in a ...

For many people in the Transylvanian village of Viscri in central Romania, Britain's King Charles has been a gracious and engaged neighbour. The monarch, who is distantly related to Romania's ...

Carmen Schuster was a young woman when she left the Transylvanian village of Cincsor in Romania for West Germany in search of a better life 40 years ago.

Britain's King Charles III -- who claims descent from a notorious 15th-century Transylvanian prince known as Vlad the Impaler -- also owns a number of properties nearby, renting out some to tourists.