{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Principality of Transylvania",
  "now": "romania",
  "years": "1570–1711",
  "id": "transylvania",
  "index": "c/romania:1570",
  "title": "Flag of the Principality of Transylvania",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#0a66c2",
      "note": "Hungarian (Magyar) nation."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c8102e",
      "note": "Szekler nation."
    },
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#ffcc00",
      "note": "Saxon nation."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711) was a largely autonomous state straddling the Habsburg and Ottoman spheres — a refuge for Reformed (Calvinist) Protestantism and Unitarianism\n - **Construction:** horizontal bands of blue, red, and gold — the colours of Transylvania's **three nations** (Hungarian nobility, Szekler frontier warriors, Saxon townsmen) — with a quartered shield bearing the black Turul eagle over sun-and-moon (Hungarian half) and seven silver towers (Saxon half)\n - The three-nation structure excluded the Romanian-speaking majority peasantry from political participation",
  "flag": "empires/transylvania.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Principality of Transylvania",
    "officialName": "Principatus Transsilvaniae",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The Edict of Torda (1568) made Transylvania one of the first European states to legally recognise religious tolerance\n - Absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy after the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699); attached to Hungary under Austria-Hungary\n - Ceded to Romania after WWI by the Treaty of Trianon (1920)",
  "_name": "Principality of Transylvania",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "transylvania"
}