’’Transylvania is a geographic unity, a plateou sharply separated by mountain ranges. It is surrounded by the Great Hungarian Plains on the west, the Bukovina Basin in the Dniester Valley on the north-east, the Moldavia Plains on the east and the Regat Plains (the low plains of Alduna) on the south-east and south – they are all low plains that occupy large areas. The inner part of Transylvania (the Mezőség region and the valleys of the Rivers Mureş, Someş and the Târnavas) is 300-400 meters above sea level on average, whereas the majority of other lands that can be cultiva  »