Author: CORNISH, LOUIS C.
Title: Transylvania the Land Beyond the Forest
Description: Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest" (ultra meaning "beyond" or "on the far side of" and the accusative case of sylva (sylvam) "woods, forest"). Transylvania, with an alternative Latin prepositional prefix, means "on the other side of the woods." Hungarian historians claim that the Medieval Latin form Ultrasylvania, later Transylvania, was a direct translation from the Hungarian form Erdo-elve. That also was used as an alternative name in German überwald (13-14th centuries) and Ukrainian (Zalissia).". Very Good+ .

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