When the First World War started, Romania had been a member of the Triple Alliance since 1883. However, just one month before the start of the conflict, King Carol I of Romania warned his allies in Berlin and Vienna that it would be impossible for him to mobilize the...
During the First World War, Queen Marie of Romania was involved in numerous relief actions, while also having an active role on the political stage. Immediately following the death of King Carol I and Romania’s subsequent entry into the war, the queen started keeping...
When a young Serbian by the name of Gavrilo Princip gunned down Franz-Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, no one thought that it would lead to four years of bloody military confrontations. The Austro-Hungarian ultimatum addressed to...
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...