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Tihuţa Pass (Romanian: Pasul Tihuţa; Hungarian: Borgó or Burgó) is a high mountain pass in the Romanian Bârgău Mountains (Eastern Carpathian Mountains) connecting Bistriţa (Transylvania) with Vatra Dornei (Bukovina Moldavia).The pass was made famous by Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula where termed as the Borgo Pass it was the gateway to the realm of Count Dracula. Stoker most likely found the name on a contemporary map.