by Iulian Simbeteanu | Jun 10, 2019 | Romania, Russian Empire, World War I in 1918
Romania’s decision to enter the First World War on the side of the Entente in the summer of 1916 seemed at first glance like an abandonment not only of Bessarabia, the old territory of the Moldavian voivodeship occupied by the Russian Empire in 1812, but also of the... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Mar 21, 2019 | Austria, Romania
Between October 28 and November 3, 1916, the city of Cluj received the visit of the last member of the Habsburg dynasty to become Emperor: Archduke Charles, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the time of the visit, Romania had already entered the war... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Mar 19, 2019 | Czechoslovakia
Thomas Masaryk was one of the great personalities of Czechoslovakia’s struggle for independence during the First World War. His initial idea was to reform the internal politics of the Habsburg Empire- transforming the monarchy into a democratic federal state- but gave... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Feb 15, 2019 | Czechoslovakia
In Europe, the 20th century began with the apocalyptic finale of the age of the continent’s last authoritarian empires. By the time the smoke of the First World War had cleared, the Russian czars, the German kaisers, and the Austrian emperors had been swept into the... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Feb 13, 2019 | Austria, Hungary, World War I in 1918
The First World War ended with the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Dual Monarchy came out of the conflict it has caused split in half, with its two constituent parts permanently separated. Moreover, these territories themselves were in turn broken up,...