by Ciprian Stoleru | Sep 12, 2019 | Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia
To ensure its security, Romania sought immediately after the end of the First World War to conclude a series of regional alliances. The Little Entente and the alliance with Poland were subsumed to this objective. The First World War did not end for Romania in November... by Ciprian Stoleru | Dec 3, 2018 | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania
The end of the First World War also brought about the emergence of movements to liberate the oppressed people in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with the goal to establish new national states. Thus, on October 28, 1918, after great popular demonstrations, the independent... 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 ciprian | Aug 29, 2018 | Austria, New or Changed Borders, Poland, Russian Empire
When we speak about partitions of Poland, (1772, 1793, 1795), we think at three territorial divisions of Poland, perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, by which Poland’s size was progressively reduced until, after the final partition, the state of Poland ceased... by admin | Mar 11, 2018 | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, New or Changed Borders, Poland, World War I in 1918, Yugoslavia
On the occasion of his trip to Kiev in the summer of 1917, Czech leader Thomas Masaryk gave an interview to a Romanian journalist of the România Mare (Greater Romania) newspaper. This publication, România Mare, was edited in Kiev by Romanian volunteers from the... by admin | Jan 31, 2018 | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, New or Changed Borders, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia
The Dual Monarchy, according to the census of 1910, had a population of 51,390,223 people, of which 55,60% of the population, namely 28,571,934 people were in the Cisleithanian states, under the direct authority of the Austrian government: Lower Austria, Upper...