#brașov county

[travelella]

Râșnov, Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania

Maria Teneva

[nadjaerna]

Young Saxon woman from Cristian, Țara Bârsei (Burzenland, a historic and ethnographic area in Brașov County, southeastern Transylvania, Romania). 1913

[howlingdemon13]

Do you have any specific headcanons about Trevor's childhood? :>

Oh boy, do I! These are kinda general, but they should suffice.

In a fic I never ended up getting very far in, I had a much happier version of Trevor’s early life in mind. He’s from a big family (the youngest of 5 brothers) and lived pretty decently despite the exile and all that jazz. He’s pretty rambunctious, but he’s still got the understanding that he needs to prove himself of being a capable hunter and worthy of inheriting the Vampire Killer.

For the version of Trev in my current fic (for which all hcs exist now), it’s a tad spoilery(?).

Trev loses his parents fairly young (in a pretty traumatizing way for a 14-year-old especially), but his time before that was honestly not bad. His parents obviously loved him and made sure that he was well-trained and had sufficient knowledge to navigate inter-class social situations, hunt monsters, understand basic magic and alchemy, and read. He doesn’t have much in the way of worldly possessions (besides heirlooms from Leon’s day that he’s set to inherit), but he’s not really the kind of kid that cares about all that. He doesn’t have siblings, but he sometimes had friends - he cycled through them pretty quickly once any of them found out he was an exile/excommunicated and their parents didn’t want their precious godly kids playing with a Belmont. That’s why he’s so attached to his friends as an adult; he finally has people who care about him outside of his parents.

That’s all to say that he’s content to climb trees by himself or build little stick forts out in the woods.

He’s pretty mature compared to a lot of other kids in Brașov since he has the duty of his entire bloodline on his tiny shoulders, and he’s pretty good at winning people over when he and his family are desperate for resources. He more-or-less understands why he and his parents live the way they do, but it doesn’t stop him from being lonely and wistful that maybe one day he might have friends.

That said though, he’s self sufficient and can contribute to the household by hunting and fishing and all that.

When he does end up alone, it’s this precociousness that allows him to find help from others despite some villagers’ lack of assistance and distain for him. Even as a kid he can charm his way into making allies. He travels around what is now Brașov county looking for odd jobs and occasionally hunting particularly dangerous creatures in exchange for coin or a place to sleep for a night or two. He does this until he’s an adult. It’s during his later childhood years that he sees the good in people, and it comes through in those in poverty or fellow exiles like him. He doesn’t really blame anyone for his situation and sees it as his ultimate test before Drac tries to murder humanity.

In conclusion, liddol Trev is the lonely kid that plays in the dirt but is also startlingly mature and has the weight of his ancestors on his shoulders at all times.

[steliosagapitos]

            - The Mogoșoaia Palace of Ilfov in Romania. -

            ~ “Mogoșoaia Palace, historical building in the town of Mogoșoaia, Ilfov county, Muntenia, Romania, located about 15 km from the centre of Bucharest. The complex contains the building itself, its courtyard with the watch tower, the cuhnia (kitchen), the guest house, the ice house and the vault of the Bibescu family, as well as the ‘Saint Gheorghe’ church located near the walls of the courtyard.     The Mogoșoaia Palace was in the possession of the Brâncoveanu family for approximately 119 years, then passing into the ownership of the Bibescu family. The palace was built until 1702 by Constantin Brâncoveanu in the Brâncoven style, a style previously used in another voivode's palace, built by him in Potlogi. The work was finished on September 20, 1702, according to the inscription on the east side of the palace. The date of the start of construction is not known, but it is known that Brâncoveanu started buying land in the area in 1681.

The Brâncovens after the death of the ruler (1714-1832).

    After 1714, when Constantin Brâncoveanu was executed in Constantinople together with his sons, all the family's wealth was confiscated by the Ottomans and the palace was turned into an inn. Redeemed by the ruler Ștefan Cantacuzino, it then returned to the great ban Constantin Brâncoveanu, the ruler's grandson, and remained in the family's possession until the beginning of the 19th century. The palace was devastated by the Ottomans during the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, because the great ban Nicolae Brâncoveanu had sided with the Russians in the conflict. Another destruction of the palace took place on the occasion of the revolution of 1821 when the last descendant of the Brâncoven family, Grigore Brâncoveanu, fled to Brașov and the building was occupied by the Pandi.

Residence of the Bibescu family.

      After Grigore's death in 1832, the Mogoșoaia property was inherited by his adopted daughter, Zoe Mavrocordat, and through her marriage to the ruler Gheorghe Bibescu, concluded in 1826, it passed into his family. The palace was renovated between 1860–1880 by Nicolae Bibescu, who also built the family vault in the palace park, and the nearby Elchingen villa. The palace was still administered by the Bibescu family who, however, moved to the new villa and the old building remained uninhabited. This until 1911, when Maria-Nicole Darvari sold the palace to her cousin George-Valentin Bibescu, who gave it as a wedding present to his wife, Martha.

The era of Martha Bibescu (1912-45).

    Martha Bibescu took care of renovating the palace starting in 1912. During the First World War, the renovation works were hampered by further destruction suffered as a result of the German bombings. During the German occupation of Bucharest and southern Romania, Princess Martha Bibescu remained in the capital, taking care of Queen Maria's hospital and living in the palace for a while. Returning to the country after she had gone to London, being accused of collaborating with the German troops, Martha Bibescu resumed the renovation works after 1920, spending a large part of the wealth collected from the books she wrote. Thus, the palace was re-inaugurated in 1927, with some interior works continuing, however, until 1935. While it was owned by Marthea Bibescu, the palace was visited by personalities such as August von Mackensen, Charles de Gaulle, Marcel Proust, Nicolae Iorga, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King Carol I of Romania, Queen Maria of Romania, King Ferdinand I of Romania or Winston Churchill. During the Second World War, the palace was a meeting place for allied diplomats, being, for a few months, rented to the Swiss legation in Romania.

Under the communist regime (1945-89).

       After March 6, 1945, the estate was forcibly nationalised by the communist government, Martha Bibescu obtaining from the authorities the declaration of the palace as a historical monument, which she still owned. However, the princess left the country for good in September 1945, leaving the palace to her daughter Valentina and her husband, Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești, son of Eugen Ghica-Comănești.       In 1949, the palace was also nationalised, Valentina and Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești were arrested. By 1957, the building was ravaged and ransacked, the art collections stolen and dismantled. It was only in 1957 that the palace became the seat of the feudal section of the National Art Museum, being restored starting in 1977.

After 1990.

    Currently, the Mogoșoaia Palace houses the Brâncoveneasc Art Museum and is an important tourist attraction. Starting from 2010, the legal heirs of Marthea Bibescu, who live in Great Britain, are fighting in court for the recovery of the complex, or if necessary for obtaining adequate compensation.” ~

[europeposts]

Brașov is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat  of Brașov County. Brașov is located in the central part of the country, about 166 km (103 mi) north of Bucharest and 380 km (236 mi) from the Black Sea. It is surrounded by the Southern Carpathians and is part of the historical region of Transylvania. Wikipedia.

Brasov, Romania (by George Nutulescu)

[life-does-not-forgive-weakness]

Brașov County   @emp_vision

[skovonski]

Timelapse The old clock tower of the Evangelical Church (Biserica Evanghelică CA) at Republicii Street (Strada Republicii) in Rasnov (Râșnov). View from Râșnov Fortress (Romanian: Cetatea Râșnov, German: Rosenauer Burg)

[unplaces]

Centura Brașov, Brașov.

[poleteli]

Брашов, Румыния 

Олег Пелин | Фотография | Карта

[hedome]

Nature, Earthquakes, Romania

Seismic hazard for Romania from the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP). 455 July 10 AD. It destroyed several towns and villages in Transylvania. C. 543 AD. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake with the epicenter in Dionysopolis, Dobrich Province, Bulgaria. Large tsunami on the Dobrujan shore of the Black Sea. The Roman fortress of Capidava, Constanța County, is destroyed. 815 August AD.…

[history-of-fashion]

1847 (copy after) Theodor Sockl - Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim, the artist’s wife

(Brașov County Museum of History, the original is lost)

[travelella]

Amfiteatrul Transilvania, Moieciu de Sus, Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania

Taken by Razvan Mirel

[draculyr-a]

i specifically commissioned this piece from @kingvolturi​​​ so that i could discuss the count’s political and royal standing as count, or in reality, a form of boyar to his cousin, the voivode. it is imperitave to my portrayal that you understand i do not write him as vlad the impaler, but rather a cousin to the same family that served within the holy order of the dragon, as per van helsing book lore and fell/the sight lore by david clement-davies. he had command over a substantial fiefdom in ardeal/erdély ( transylvania ), including timis to satu mare, all the way to brașov and harghita and covasna. even in undeath he kept his title, despite his family tossing him away into the carpathian mountains when they learned of his possession/return (a la 2004 van helsing). and when he broke free and returned to his castle home in brasov, he deposed the acting boyar and retook his place as the leader of the county. while imposing and terrifying, he still supplied what was needed to protect his peoples from invading armies and attempted to remain truthful to the laws of the cojvoda for years to come, until finally giving in to his reclusive nature and holing up in his castle instead. even in court he terrified those who would have opposed him until he was finally cast out by the son of ra.du cel frumos, who sent numerous people to kill dra.cula and rid transylvania of his plague.    (  note: this foray into maddened loneliness is before he meets his first bride, verona, and is what prompts him to steal his firstborn son and is around when he begins wearing the pelt of Larka.  )

the count speaks in the book of his people with so much pride- not just of his heritage, but of his family. he speaks in the royal pronoun of we, stating that the draculas have batted off invaders to their land for centuries prior to even his birth. and he speaks of his székely and magyar and slavic heritage and of the crimes of humanity brought to the land in recent times. he speaks of pride not just for those of his bloodline, but of all those who live within ardeal as being her own people, attributing a great service to those outcasted in the cities and announcing his disgust to the influences of western society, since he witnessed the exile of those people exile first-hand (and it is these people which he employs and gives his business to expressly, and will never feed on). with an appreciation for all those who live within the borders of ardeal, he possesses a deep love; and it is that love that has him so connected still to his people even in death. and that which promotes him to starve himself on what little he needs to survive. 

this changes immediately on the death of lisa, in which the count then forsakes everyone in transylvania that is born of mortal blood for the murder of his human wife. he throws his crown away and adopts the monkier king of vampires instead; he stops considering himself to even be of the same birth and clings to his vampiric nature as a demon in his grief and rage, sending out his army of demons to kill every last human living in the principality. this decision leads to him being put down by trevor belmont. the events of dra.cula take place in my timeline after his first resurrection. 

i requested this particular piece of art because it would be hanging somewhere in the castle. perhaps in dark chamber forgotten by time, where the dust is piled so high it seems like fog. but it is there in the castle. and your character can find it.  thanks owly! 

[the-summer-sun-au]

Fundata is a commune in Brașov County, Romania, in the historic region of Transylvania. It is 42 km from where we stayed in Brașov.

[steliosagapitos]

                 Lower Moeciu Mountains of Brașov County in Romania.

[soc-infra]

Predeal Railway Station, Brașov County, Romania. 

Built 1969, designed by Irina Rosetti who was the architect of the station at Tulcea. The outside of the station can be seen in this video.  Photographs by Alexandru Mircea.