by Ciprian Stoleru | Nov 30, 2018 | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, World War I in 1918, Yugoslavia
In August 1918, the German army was about to be defeated on the western front. In just over a month, with the advance of the French army in Thessaloniki, the Bulgarian front collapsed. On September 26, the government of Sofia called for an armistice (signed in... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Nov 29, 2018 | Finland
Shortly after the proclamation of Finland’s independence (December 6, 1917) and the recognition of the new state by Soviet Russia, France, Sweden and the German Empire (January 4, 1918), the Finnish diet proclaimed the country’s neutrality (January 8). However,... by Ciprian Stoleru | Nov 28, 2018 | Romania, World War I in 1918
The dismemberment of Austria-Hungary at the end of the First World War offered the oppressed peoples of the Empire a chance to organize themselves in new national states. One by one, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the South Slavs and the Poles forged their own way forward.... by ciprian | Nov 26, 2018 | Programmatic Documents, Romania
On December 1, 1918 (November 18 Old Style), the National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary, consisting of 1,228 elected representatives of the Romanians in Transylvania, Banat, Crişana and Maramureş, convened in Alba Iulia and decreed (by unanimous... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Nov 24, 2018 | Romania, World War I in 1918
For the inhabitants of Bucharest, the autumn of 1916 was just the beginning of their tragedy. Prior to the actual occupation of the city by the Germans, the capital was bombed by Zeppelin airships and Taube airplanes. And because it was a novelty for them, the...