Editing Transylvania (section)

==In popular culture==
{{Main|Transylvania in popular culture}}
[[File:Bela Lugosi as Dracula, anonymous photograph from 1931, Universal Studios.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Bela Lugosi|Lugosi]] as [[Count Dracula]]]]

Following the publication of [[Emily Gerard]]'s ''The Land Beyond the Forest'' (1888), [[Bram Stoker]] wrote his [[Gothic fiction|gothic horror]] novel ''[[Dracula]]'' in 1897, using Transylvania as a setting. With its success, Transylvania became associated in the English- and Spanish-speaking world with [[vampire]]s. Among the first actors to portray [[Count Dracula|Dracula]] [[Dracula (1931 English-language film)|in film]] was [[Bela Lugosi]], who was born in Lugos (now [[Lugoj]]), in present-day Romania. The American animated movie franchise ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]'' also plays on the association of Transylvania with Dracula.

Transylvania has also been represented in fiction and literature as a land of mystery and magic. For example, in [[Paulo Coelho]]'s novel ''[[The Witch of Portobello]]'', the main character, Sherine Khalil, is described as a Transylvanian orphan with a [[Romani people|Romani]] mother, in an effort to add to the character's exotic mystique.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} The so-called Transylvanian trilogy of historical novels by [[Miklós Bánffy]], ''The Writing on the Wall'', is an extended treatment of the 19th- and early 20th-century social and political history of the country. The Principality of Transylvania is also a playable nation in ''[[Europa Universalis IV]]''.