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Torrey, Glenn E. Romania and World War I (1998) Torrey, Glenn E. The Romanian Battlefront in World War I (2012) excerpt and text search; Vinogradov, V. N. "Romania in the First World War: The Years of Neutrality, 1914–1916", The International History Review 14, 3 (1992): 452–461. Great Britain. Admiralty.
Territories inhabited by Romanians before WWI. Due to Romania's unfavorable location between the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Bulgaria as well as King Carol I of Romania's German heritage, Romania had a secret treaty of alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary since 1883. When the war began in 1914, King Carol I summoned an emergency midnight ...
This is a timeline of Romanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Romania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Romania .
Romania leased its oil wells to Germany for 90 years. The Central Powers recognized the Union of Bessarabia with Romania; 535,706 Ferdinand I: Ion I. C. Brătianu: Constantin Iancovescu: Vasile Zottu (until Oct. 1916) Dumitru Iliescu (Oct. – Dec. 1916) Constantin Prezan (from Dec. 1916) Victory. Armistice of 11 November 1918; Treaty of Versailles
The French military mission in Romania helped rebuild the Romanian Army, as Russia's was disintegrating. The reorganization of the Romanian Army had been completed by June 1917. The 1,500-strong French military mission, headed by General Henri Berthelot , included 300 officers who provided expert instruction in the use of new weapons and ...
After a series of quick tactical victories on the numerically overpowered Austro-Hungarian forces in Transylvania, in the autumn of 1916, the Romanian Army suffered a series of devastating defeats, which forced the Romanian military and administration to withdraw to Western Moldavia, allowing the Central Powers to occupy two thirds of the national territory, including the state capital, Bucharest.
Depiction of Romanian troops storming the Grivitsa redoubt during the Romanian War of Independence, 1877. The military history of Romania deals with conflicts spreading over a period of about 2500 years across the territory of modern Romania, the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe and the role of the Romanian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide.
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