Wallachia is a region of which country?
Wallachia (as per the 2011 census) in the Wallachia region are: Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia ( ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia is traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia). Wallachia as a whole is sometimes referred to as Muntenia through identification with the larger of the two traditional sections. Wallachia was founded as a principality in the early 14th century by Basarab I, after a rebellion against Charles I of Hungary,
Foundation of Wallachia name is first encountered in a Greek diploma issued by the synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1370. In the diploma, the ruler of Wallachia, Nicolae Alexandru is styled "great "voivode" and master of all "Oungrovlachia"". Latin documents used the term "Wallachia" or "Wallachia maior" (‘Greater Wallachia’) for Muntenia (which first appeared in 1373), and "Wallachia minor" (‘Lesser Wallachia’) for Oltenia (first recorded in 1377). The new country was identified as "terra transalpina" (‘land beyond the mountains’) or "partes transalpinae" (‘parts beyond the mountains’) in documents issued by the Royal Chancellery of Hungary in the entire 14th century. The