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Samoilă Mârza- the only photographer of the Union of Transylvania with Romania (December 1, 1918)
The only photographs that we have from the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, which decided to unite Transylvania with Romania, are the ones taken by Samoilă Mârza. By chance, the only photographer of the historic event, he was 32 years old and had just returned...
December 1, 1918- The return home. Queen Marie: “It is true that on this day- we have returned triumphant!”
When the First World War ended on November 11, 1918, the Royal Family, the parliament and the rest of Romanians that were in exile in Iași returned to Bucharest two weeks after the cessation of hostilities. On December 1, 1918, King Ferdinand and Queen Marie were...
The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia
The dismemberment of Austria-Hungary determined the Romanians in Transylvania to organize themselves quickly to decide their own future. Following the failure of the negotiations with the Hungarians in Arad, Romanian representatives decided to convene a Great National...
Bucharest, December 1, 1918: “It was only for a moment. But it’s enough to live this moment once to fill an entire life with it”
On December 1, when the Transylvanians voted in Alba Iulia for the union with Romania, Queen Marie along with King Ferdinand and General Berthelot returned triumphantly in Bucharest after two years of dreadful despair and exile, of struggle and heroism: “The whole...
The dismemberment of Austria-Hungary
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...