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Romania and the alliance with Poland
The main objective of Romania’s foreign policy in the interwar period was to defend the borders established at the Paris Peace Conference. To ensure the security of Romania, the politicians in Bucharest sought to build a whole system of regional alliances, but France...
Romania and the Little Entente
Through the treaties signed at the Versailles Peace Conference (1919-1920), Romania managed to obtain the international recognition of the Great Union. The leaders of Romania at that time had to preserve the integrity of the new borders by maintaining and observing...
The arrest of the writer Ioan Slavici. A classic of Romanian literature, detained for «anti-Romanian propaganda»
Writer, playwright, memorialist and journalist, Ioan Slavici, was born on January 18, 1848, in the village of Șiria, which was at that time in Hungary. The writer who will become a classic of Romanian literature was born into a modest family. His mother, Elena, was...
The defence of Târgu Jiu by the Romanian population in the First World War
On August 27, 1916, the troops of the Romanian army entered Transylvania. The Central Powers reacted quickly to the entry of Romania in the war on the side of the Entente. The combined German-Bulgarian armies attacked the Romanian forces in the south, at Turtucaia,...