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Thanks; so the people living in Odessa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson are known as Yedisantsy. Interesting.

But wasn't all of Transylvania a vassal, not just the northern part?

Southern Transylvania was Orthodox in 1850 (first map above) and 1930 (second map below): Whereas apparently all of Transylvania was already under Hapsburg rule by 1700!

Southern Transylvania was not under direct Ottoman rule in 1700: The Banat was but apparently not southern Transylvania.

Why did southern Transylvania never become Uniate-majority like northern Transylvania did?

Steve, do you know why Austria-Hungary never made the recovery of Oltenia a war aim after Romania's entry into World War I?

Not necessarily; Russia can still access Constantinople through Dobruja in Europe as well as through Asia Minor (Anatolia) if it will ever conquer it.

The Hapsburgs briefly controlled Craiova, in western Wallachia, in the early 18th century, so I do think that having the Hapsburgs control Wallachia is probably more realistic than having the Hapsburgs control Moldavia (other than Bukovina).

Would a Romanov-puppet Romania count for this? Because that's what Catherine II apparently wanted with her Greek Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Plan I suppose that we could also see a direct Russian annexation of all of Moldavia while the Neo-Byzantine Empire led by a Russian...