Transylvania population of Transylvania for the years 1830-1840 the majority were 62.3% Romanians and 23.3% Hungarians. In the last quarter of the 19th century, the Hungarian population of Transylvania increased from 24.9% in 1869 to 31.6%, as indicated in the 1910 Hungarian census. At the same time, the percentage of Romanian population decreased from 59.0% to 53.8% and the percentage of German population decreased from 11.9% to 10.7%, for a total population of 5,262,495. Magyarization policies greatly contributed to this shift. The percentage of Romanian majority has significantly increased since the declaration of the union of Transylvania with Romania after World
1537 Transylvania the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Transylvania is also the birthplace of the discoverer Gyula Strommer (1920–1995). "Transylvania" was his only minor-planet discovery. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 (). 1537 Transylvania 1537 Transylvania, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and long-lost minor planet from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Gyula Strommer in 1940, it was later named after region of Transylvania, where the discoverer was born. "Transylvania" was discovered on 27 August 1940, by Hungarian astronomer Gyula Strommer at the Konkoly Observatory near