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At the time of the arrival in Transylvania of the first mendicant order - the Dominicans - in 1241, religious orders had been present in the principality for almost a century and a half. The first Latin-rite religious order to settle in Transylvania, the Benedictines, came in the eleventh century, and they were followed at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by the Cistercians and in...