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Marshal Averescu and Queen Marie, visiting the front.” I felt, more than ever, how ardently I love this country!”
During the war, Queen Marie was of real help not only in hospitals or as a strategist in the political discussions of the time, but also as a moral support for the troops. She often went to the front and encouraged the soldiers in difficult moments, especially when...
The Romania of 1918, from agony to ecstasy
Just seven months before the Great Union of December 1, 1918, Romania was at its lowest moment in history. With most of the country occupied and with a Bolshevik revolution that led to the collapse of the giant Russian Empire, that capitulated at Brest-Litovsk,...
Romanian soldiers from Transylvania, in Vienna and Prague
With the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romanian soldiers in Transylvania who were mobilized in the imperial army briefly kept the peace in the major cities of the Empire: Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest. Before the First World War 2.8 million...
The Union of Bukovina with Romania
The Duchy of Bukovina, which was a part of Austria-Hungary since the establishment of the Double Monarchy, from 1867 until 1918, represented the northern part of medieval Moldavia. The Habsburg Empire occupied this territory in 1775, and on November 28, 1918, due to...
The German army and the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia
While the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was underway, on November 15, 1918 the negotiations between the Romanians in Transylvania and a Hungarian delegation led by Oszkar Jaszi failed. The Romanians in Transylvania were determined to forge their own...