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The rescue of Romanian prisoners in Odessa by the Canadian Boyle
In the fall of 1917 a tragic event took place. 130 Romanians were taken hostage in Odessa, after they were declared “enemies of the Bolsheviks”, arrested and taken to a ship headed for Sevastopol. The whole episode ended relatively quickly, with the brave intervention...
Queen Marie, in the midst of the Hungarians, at Karoly Castle: “It is really strange to be the enemy’s deliverer”
In the 1919 visit to Transylvania, the Royal Family also stopped at Carei. Their welcome could not have been better, and the great surprise came from the Hungarians who thanked King Ferdinand and Queen Marie for winning the war, being in the position of the “enemy’s...
The Mărășești Mausoleum – the most important monument erected in the memory of the Romanian heroes of the First World War
Fought between August 6 and August 19, 1917, in the area of Vrancea County in south western Moldavia, the Battle of Mărășești represented the most important victory of the Romanian army during the First World War. With the victories at Mărăști and Oituz, in the...
The Corps of Romanian volunteers from Transylvania and Bukovina- Romanian prisoners from Russia, enlisted in the Romanian army
Romanians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire fought in the First World War since the beginning of the conflict. On the Galician Front, and later on the Italian Front, many Romanians were taken prisoners or deserted and were taken to war camps in Russia, Italy or France....