Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Transylvania” in chapter 36 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.:

...ny sensible or unbiassed mind. So reasoned the fathers of Kentucky. In their legislation, it was their chief care to copy after the happy pattern of the English laws. Their colony they called Transylvania . Their titles to their lands they rested on a deed from the head warriors of the Cherokees as the first owners of the soil. Dunmore had taunted them with opening an asylum for debtors and disorde...
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Transylvania (Romania) 64 2 0 0 0 user votes
Transylvania (North Carolina, United States) 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Transylvania (Louisiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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