| Wallachia and Moldavia became tributaries of the Ottoman Empire from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but kept their own princes. |
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| In the eighteenth century, the Phanariotes were appointed hospodars, or princes, of the Romanian provinces Moldavia and Wallachia. |
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| Transylvania, Wallachia and, intermittently, Moldavia, became tributary principalities of the Ottoman Empire. |
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| The root of the word Wallonia, like the words Wales, Cornwall and Wallachia, is the Germanic word Walha, meaning the strangers. |
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| Wallachia as a whole is sometimes referred to as Muntenia through identification with the larger of the two traditional sections. |
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| The Saxons were furious with him for strengthening the borders of Wallachia, which interfered with their stranglehold on the trade routes. |
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| This led to the conquest of Wallachia by Radu who would rule it for 11 years until his death. |
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| The Greuthungi or Ostrogoths lived in Bessarabia and the Thervingi lived in the provinces of Moldova and Wallachia, which they called Caucaland. |
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| Moreover, in Romania, people from Wallachia and Transylvania call the Romanians inhabiting western Moldavia, now part of Romania, as Moldovans. |
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| The Ottoman vassal states of Wallachia and Moldavia became largely independent. |
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| Contemporary historians estimate the population of Wallachia in the 15th century at 500,000 people. |
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| Walh is an element found in the names Walloon, Wales, Wallachia, walnut, Wallace and Walsh. |
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| Modern Romania was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. |
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| The first known use of the appellation was attested in the 16th century by Italian humanists travelling in Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia. |
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| Nationalistic themes became principal during the Wallachian uprising of 1821, and the 1848 revolutions in Wallachia and Moldavia. |
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| In the latter part of the 14th century, the southern part of the region was for several decades part of Wallachia. |
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| The main dynasty of Wallachia was called Basarab, from which the current name of the region originated. |
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| Inaugurated by Nicholas Mavrocordatos in Moldavia after Dimitrie Cantemir, Phanariote rule was brought to Wallachia in 1715 by the very same ruler. |
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| In parallel, Wallachia became the battleground in a succession of wars between the Ottomans on one side and Russia or the Habsburg Monarchy on the other. |
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| Slavery was a common practice in Europe at the time, and there is some debate over whether the Romani people came to Wallachia as free men or as slaves. |
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