by Ana Maria Schiopu | Mar 21, 2019 | Austria, Romania
Between October 28 and November 3, 1916, the city of Cluj received the visit of the last member of the Habsburg dynasty to become Emperor: Archduke Charles, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the time of the visit, Romania had already entered the war... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Mar 20, 2019 | Romania
After the withdrawal of the Romanian Government to Iași (November 1916), there were numerous officials, representatives of the Romanian authorities, as well as the majority of the administrative staff, that remained in the territory occupied by the German troops. The... by admin | Mar 19, 2019 | World War I in 1918
Romania ranks third in a statistic of human losses in the First World War. Many people have forgotten this today. Although historians are much more attentive to the atrocities on the western front, and on the Romanian front there are truly shocking images. Nearly... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Mar 19, 2019 | Czechoslovakia
Thomas Masaryk was one of the great personalities of Czechoslovakia’s struggle for independence during the First World War. His initial idea was to reform the internal politics of the Habsburg Empire- transforming the monarchy into a democratic federal state- but gave... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Mar 18, 2019 | Czechoslovakia, Russian Empire
The beginning of the First World War represented for the Czechs and Slovaks a major opportunity to fight for their independence against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Representatives of these minorities in Russia proposed to that country’s government to support their...