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Muntenia
Sign in to saveMuntenia (, 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). 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. 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 Sir
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Vinony's link graph records 1,129 inbound references to Muntenia, and connects out to Romania, Bucharest and time zone.
It is catalogued under topics including Historical regions in Romania, Muntenia and Romania articles missing geocoordinate data.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Muntenia
- Settlement.other_name
- Greater Wallachia
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Historical region of Romania
- Settlement.image_shield
- 65px
- Settlement.image_map
- Muntenia.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Romania
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Largest city
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bucharest
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 47161
- Settlement.population_total
- 5.921.110
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021 census
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Muntenian/Wallachian
- Settlement.timezone1
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +2
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- +3
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical region
- Country
- Romania
- Image
- 20140703 leaving Otopeni 03.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Wallachia
- topic's main category
- Category:Muntenia
- Commons category
- Wallachia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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Muntenia (, 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). 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. 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.
==Geography== thumb|right|250px|Constantin Lecca: "Moldavians and Muntenians become brothers"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muntenia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.