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The earliest known reference to Transylvania appears in a Medieval Latin document of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1078 as ultra silvam
The commonly cited earliest attestation is 1075, not 1078.
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A scholarly source on Transylvanian toponymy dates the first attested mention to 1075, stating: "D'abord, il sera question de Ultra silvam (1075)". That directly contradicts the article's statement that the earliest known reference was in 1078. Because the claim is specifically about the earliest known reference, using the wrong year makes it inaccurate.
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- Toponymie et défrichements - Défrichements et toponymie en Transylvanie - Presses universitaires du Midi
Au x e siècle, les Hongrois entament leur conquête de la Transylvanie et, au xi e siècle, le nom de ce pays apparaît dans les premiers documents. D'abord, il sera question de Ultra silvam (1075), ensuite d'un Mercurius princeps Ultrasilvanus (1111)...
These other provinces had all joined the Kingdom of Romania a few months earlier.
This is wrong because Banat was not united with Romania a few months before 1 December 1918; Romanian official accounts place Banat in the 1 December 1918 union alongside Transylvania, Crișana and Maramureș.
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The sentence says that the provinces other than Transylvania — explicitly including Banat — had all joined Romania a few months earlier. But Romanian official sources describing the Great Union state that on 1 December 1918 the National Assembly declared the union of Transylvania, Banat, Crișana and Maramureș with Romania. So Banat was not one of the provinces that had already joined months earlier.
This matters because the sentence uses the word "all": even if Bessarabia and Bukovina joined earlier in 1918, Banat did not, so the statement as written is false.
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- 🇷🇴 Celebrăm în fiecare an pe 24 ianuarie un eveniment istoric important: unificarea Principatelor Române (Moldova și Țara Românească) sub domnia lui Alexandru Ioan Cuza - Instituția Prefectului
Această unire a reprezentat primul pas către realizarea unui stat român unitar, obiectiv care s-a realizat la 1 decembrie 1918, când Adunarea Națională a României a declarat unirea Transilvaniei, Banatului, Crișanei și Maramureșului cu Regatul României.
- 1 Decembrie - Ziua Naţională a României - AGERPRES
În 1918, Adunarea Naţională de la Alba Iulia adopta rezoluţia Unirii Transilvaniei, Banatului, Crişanei şi Maramureşului cu România.
The Roman forts including Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana, Porolissum, Apulum, Potaissa, and Drobeta
Drobeta is not in Transylvania (nor in the article's broader Transylvania/Banat/Crișana/Maramureș scope); it is in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, in Oltenia.
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In this section, the article is listing tourist attractions of Transylvania and its extended scope. But Drobeta is located in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, and the city authorities identify it as being in Oltenia. Since the article itself treats Oltenia as a separate historical region from Transylvania, listing Drobeta as part of this Transylvanian attractions list is geographically incorrect.
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- Drobeta Turnu Severin - Primăria Municipiului Drobeta Turnu Severin
Municipiul Drobeta Turnu-Severin este reședinţa judeţului Mehedinţi și se află ... în Regiunea de Dezvoltare Sud-Vest Oltenia... Mai exact, este așezat în partea vestică a Olteniei.
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia, Romania — Google Arts & Culture
Late Roman fort at Drobeta (Mehedinți), besides the ruins of Trajan's bridge over the Danube.
On 1 May 1784 the Emperor Joseph II called for the first official census of the Habsburg Empire
This overstates Joseph II's 1784 census: Habsburg-wide population censuses were already being carried out in the 1750s under Maria Theresa.
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The claim says Joseph II's 1784 measure was the first official census of the Habsburg Empire. But historical overviews of Habsburg statistics place the first empire-wide population census earlier, under Maria Theresa.
An Austrian history source says "The first 'description of souls' was ordered by Maria Theresia in 1753." The Czech Statistical Office likewise states that "a new chapter in the history of population censuses in the Habsburg Empire started with the census carried out in 1754" and that this was the first one conducted "at the same time and in the entire territory" of the Habsburg lands. So 1784 was not the first official Habsburg census.
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- Measure the masses - Of 'descriptions of souls' and house numbers | Die Welt der Habsburger
The first 'description of souls' was ordered by Maria Theresia in 1753.
- History of Czech Statistics before 1918 | Statistics
A new chapter in the history of population censuses in the Habsburg Empire started with the census carried out in 1754. For the first time, it took place at the same time and in the entire territory of the group of states.