- Heading east from the United States,
if you take a hard left at Africa,
you'll eventually run into a continent called Europe.
- Just in case the location of Transylvania
inside present-day Romania
wasn't clear in English,
here's a map closer up with the names in French:
- A topographical map shows that Transylvania
forms a circle of mountains, called the Carpathians,
inside which sits a high plateau:
- It takes an even more detailed historical map
to locate the town of Székelyudvarhely
where my wife Marianne was born,
attended neither by wisemen nor by shepherds:
- Even if there were no Magi there at the time, there were Magyar,
since this region was mainly Hungarian speaking.
In fact, for reasons we won't go into with any depth or accuracy,
this portion of Transylvania was actually a part of Hungary itself
at the time of Miss Siegmund's birth.
Whether it was because she left for Austria shortly after
or whether as a result of some World War or other,
the area was then completely incorporated into Romania.