Wallachia (disambiguation)

For uses of Wallach, see Wallach (disambiguation).

Wallachia (Walachia, Valachia, Valahia) is a historical and geographical region of Romania.

Wallachia may also refer to:

Geography

Generally regions inhabited by the Wallachs or Vlachs:

• "Bogdano-Wallachia" (Bogdan's Wallachia), "Small Vallachia", "Valachia Minor", "Moldo-Wallachia", "Maurovlachia", "Black Wallachia", "Moldovlachia", "Rousso-Vlachia", "L`otra Wallachia" (the "other Wallachia"), alternate names for Moldavia, a region in eastern Romania
• Morlachia, a region in Dalmatia
• Cisalpine Wallachia/Walachia Citeriore (also called "Vulaska", "Vlaska", "Valachia", "Vlaskozemski", Parvan vallachiam, etc.), alternate names for Banat, a region in south western Romania
• Great Wallachia, a region in Thessaly
• Greater Wallachia (Muntenia), a region in Romania east of the Olt River
• Lesser Wallachia (Oltenia), a region in Romania west of the Olt River
• Moravian Wallachia (Valašsko in Czech), a region in the Beskid Mountains of the Czech Republic
• Old Vallachia (Stari Vlah), a region in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and western Serbia
• Sirmium Wallachia, a region on the Sava River
• Small Wallachia, a region through Aetolia, Acarnania, Dorida (Doris), Locrida (Locris)
• Upper Valachia of Moscopole and Metsovon, a region through southern Macedonia, Albania and Epirus
• Valahia Transalpina, a name for regions of Făgăraș and Hațeg
• White Wallachia, a region in Moesia

Other regions with similar-sounding names include:

• Wallacea, a grouping Indonesian islands
• Wallacia, New South Wales
• Kingdom of Wallachia, a micronation

People

• ro:Ieremia Valahul (Italian: Geremia da Valacchia) (Jon Stoika, 1556–1625), Capuchin priest, born in Tzazo, Moldavia ("Vallachia Minor" or "Piccola Valacchia", i.e. Small Wallachia) Romania, beatified in 1983
• Saint Blaise (Croatian: Sveti Vlaho, Greek: Agios Vlasios), patron saint of Dubrovnik, an Armenian martyr
• Nicolaus Olahus (Latin for Nicholas, the Vlach; Hungarian: Oláh Miklós, Romanian: Nicolae Valahul) (1493–1568), Archbishop of Esztergom

See also

• Oláh (disambiguation)
• Vlach, a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
• Volokh (disambiguation), an alternate spelling (East Slavic)
• Wallach (disambiguation)
• Wallack
• Wallich, an unrelated, but phonetically similar name
• Night of Walachia, the main antagonist of Melty Blood
• Walchia, a fossil plant genus