by Iulian Simbeteanu | Sep 26, 2018 | Romania, World War I in 1918
The outbreak of the First World War produced a split among the Romanian political and cultural elite around the issue of which side to join in the conflict. The Ententophiles and the Germanophiles tried to sway public opinion and thus gain the upper hand in a... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Sep 7, 2018 | New or Changed Borders, Romania
The outbreak of the First World War caught Romania in a difficult position. It was reluctantly bound by a defensive treaty to the Triple Alliance and, implicitly, to the Habsburg Monarchy that occupied Transylvania and Bukovina, two provinces mainly inhabited by...