Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.

"The store has attracted sightseers from England, Italy, Iceland, Japan and even Romania's Transylvania — including a visitor ...

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

Top seed Anastasia Potapova of Russia claimed the Transylvania Open title in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, defeating unseeded Italian ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (AP) _ Results Sunday from Transylvania Open at Arenele BNR (seedings in parentheses): Magali Kempen, Belgium, and Anna Siskova, Czechia, def. Angelica Moratelli, Italy, and ...

To secure Transylvania, Romania joined the Allies in 1916 and sent legions in the attacks on Hungary. In World War II, Axis member Romania gleefully invaded Russia alongside the Germans and ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Romania is the latest European country to join the Schengen Agreement, meaning that travel across its borders is now a lot easier once tourists enter Europe. The country has big plans to attract ...

It all came to naught, however, when Hitler awarded Northern Transylvania (including Cluj) to Hungary in August 1940. After that, Romania could only prove its bona fides to Hitler by being more ...