Historical Atlas of Transylvania

Presenting the cultural heritage of this region in visual fashion is helpful for readers and students preferring the dynamic display that comes with im- agery. But it is important too for analysts in social science security policy and economics. […]
[...] This cultural and religious patchwork has always been characterized by a commitment to tolerance which has permitted bridges to be made over ethnic and confessional gaps. On the one hand it was regulated at ad- ministrative level through the earliest declaration of its kind in Europe when in 1568 the Transylvanian parliament adopted a Confessional Tol- erance Act. They achieved this at a time when the religious wars in Europe had seen their bloodiest extreme with the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in France just four years later.
Transylvanianism historically builds on this heritage.”

Zsolt Németh