by Ana Maria Schiopu | Aug 21, 2018 | Romania
Poverty reigned in the capital after the Royal Family, the Parliament and many of its inhabitants evacuated to Iași. The ones who remained had nothing to eat, even though peasants came to the city often enough with full carts, drudgingly navigating the bombed-out... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Aug 18, 2018 | New or Changed Borders, Romania, World War I in 1918
August 1916. A good decision followed by a string of tragedies like in a game of domino. Romania was not prepared and Bucharest had to be sacrificed. It had to be abandoned and left in the hands of the enemy. Many had left to the former capital of Moldavia-Bucharest...