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The Austro-Hungarian Romanian prisoners of war in the Russian Empire would eventually form the Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia who would eventually be repatriated to Romania in 1917 and take part in the battles of Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz [256] [257] and the Romanian Legion in Siberia who resisted the Bolsheviks in cooperation ...
Year Date Event 101: First war between the Roman Empire and Dacia which ended in an unfavorable peace treaty for emperor Trajan. (to 102) [citation needed] 105: Peace broken, King Decebalus loses Second Dacian War, the south-west part of Dacia becomes a Roman province.
Romania [a] is a country located at the crossroads of Central, ... Wallachia, and Moldavia joined the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire in 1594. [53]
Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.
According to this theory, the Romanian people continued to develop under the influence of the Roman Empire until the beginning of the 6th century, and as long as the empire held territory on the southern bank of the Danube and in Dobruja, it influenced the region to the river's north. [275]
Contacts between the Roman Empire – which developed into the largest empire in the history of Europe – [1] and the natives of the regions now forming Romania commenced in the 2nd century BC. [2] These regions were inhabited by Dacians, Bastarnae and other peoples [3] whose incursions posed a threat to the empire. [4]
In the autumn of 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, making possible Romanian claims easier to fulfill. The Entente, and especially France , were seeking Romanian assistance to defeat the rest of the enemy troops in southeastern Europe and to cooperate with the pro-Allied Russian troops.
[citation needed] [13] Following the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire in 800, Christian Western Europeans were reluctant to apply the "Roman" epithet to the Eastern Empire and frequently called it "Empire of the Greeks" or "Greek Empire", even though they also used Romania – the latter also for the Latin Empire of the 13th century.