The name ‘Romania’ didn’t refer to Wallachia or Moldavia until 1859, and Transylvania remained part of the Astro-Hungarian empire until 1918 - even Dracula was actually a Magyar - so what is Romania? It s a fair question, and one that frequently yields long, philosophical answers when travelling around the country - often without much of a clear answer at the end of it. Romania is a product of many incarnations - sometimes tied with Slavic neighbours, Greece, Turkey, Saxon Germany, the USSR or Hungary. But more often Romanians link their past with the Dacians or (more fashionably, at times) with the century the Romans hung out in the area.