Following the victories of Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz in the summer of 1917, the Romanian Front finally stabilized in the autumn of that year. The Bolshevik takeover in Russia and the conclusion of the armistice in Brest-Litovsk threw Romania into a geostrategic...
The Moldavian Democratic Republic, also known as the Moldavian Republic, was a state proclaimed on December 2nd 1917 (December 15, the Gregorian calendar) by the Sfatul Țării (National Council) of Bessarabia, elected in October–November 1917 following the February...
After the outbreak of the February Revolution in Petrograd in 1917 and the collapse of the Russian Empire, the Romanians in Bessarabia sought their way to self-determination by creating local bodies that would provide them with autonomy at the very least, if not...
May 16, 1812. By the Peace Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, half of the Principality of Moldavia is annexed by the tsar under the name of Bessarabia. What followed was more than 100 years of forced russification of the...