They only name the village under the Castle in one film (Carlsbad, in 'Dracula Prince of Darkness), Klausenburg ('Dracula') is nearby (and was in real life the capital of Transylvania for a time, known as Cluj-napoca in Romanian and Kolozsvár in Hungarian... it is mostly written as Klausenburgh in the novel though once it was Klausenburg) and Kleinberg/Kleinenberg (and possibly Keinenberg)*.
In this film the "village under the mountain" is called just that by the Monsignor however as Father Sandor etc talk of Castle Dracula being in Carlsbad (where you shouldn't venture) that is evidently the village in this film (and in 'Scars of Dracula' where it is also un-named).
Other settlements in or around Transylvania in the Hammerverse are Carlstadt and Ingsadt in 'Dracula' (these may be over a border such as in Bukovina... however the road may just be a toll road out of the environs of the city), Badstein (in 'Brides of Dracula'), Ingalstadt, Abensburg and Regensburg (written on the coach in 'Brides of Dracula').
Karlsburg is mentioned in 'Taste The Blood of Dracula' and is also a real locale in Transylvania (it is now Alba Iulia and was also known by its Slavic derived name of Belgrad meaning "White-castle") and was a capital of Transylvania at some points in its history.
*I have always taken the Kleinberg mentioned by Father Sandor (whose character is incidentally supposed to be a Magyar, his name is pronounced "Shandor" (and is spelled as such in his comic series)) in 'Dracula Prince of Darkness' to be the same settlement as Kleinenberg as they mean "small-mountain" or "small-hill" as "klein" is "small" and "berg" is "mountain" or "hill" (it is a cognate of the English "barrow" meaning "hill", "burial mound" et cetera, from Old Englisj "beorg" or "beorh"). In 'Dracula Has Risen...' most characters seem to call their town "Keinenberg" but as that makes no sense ("keine" is an accusative High German word for "no" or "not"), most fans and publicity material think it is "Kleinenberg" and as the town in 'Scars of Dracula' (which borrows or references a lot from earlier films) is called "Kleinenberg" it is almost definitely supposed to be the same one I take it as "Kleinenberg".
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