Yeah, it's not about can on can not speak swedish. The country has two (2) equal, official languages; finnish and swedish. So the city is called both Tampere and Tammerfors.
I think that Transylvania being described as a region in 'central' Romania is a bit of a misnomer, I would say it's more northwest or west than anything. Northwest, west or Hungarian would all be clearer for Transylvania, in my opinion.
As it turns out, the Thessalonian people are not from Thessalonia.
As a side note. Americans are also from Canada. The world is nuts.
A sore point - our Finnish hockey sticks were stolen by a construction crew.
answer in Swedish to a question that is written in English concerning a Finnish city just because some people in Finland can speak Swedish?