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From the point of view of its belligerent status, Romania was a neutral country between 28 July 1914 and 27 August 1916, a belligerent country on the part of the Entente from 27 August 1916 to 9 December 1917, in a state of armistice with the Central Powers from 10 December 1917 to 7 May 1918, a non-combatant country between 7 May 1918 and 10 ...
1 Austro-Hungarian Empire. 2 Kingdom of Belgium. ... 16 Kingdom of Romania. 17 Russian Empire. ... (Pre World War 1) Field guns.
Romanian Air Corps; Romanian Black Sea Fleet during World War I; Romanian campaign (1917) Romanian Danube Flotilla; Romanian Front (Russian Empire) Romanian Legion of Italy; Romanian Treasure; Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia
[7] [8] Up until Romania's entry into the war, the focus was on light and medium guns. Between 1914 and 1916, 332 gun carriages were produced for guns up to 75 mm. During the same time period, 1,500 caissons were also produced. [1] After Romania entered the war, however, the heavy pieces were also turned into field guns.
In the immediate years preceding the First World War, the Kingdom of Romania was involved in the Second Balkan War on the side of Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and the Ottoman Empire against Bulgaria. The Treaty of Bucharest , signed on 10 August 1913, ended the Balkan conflict and added 6,960 square kilometers to Romania's territory. [ 47 ]
The Romanian government asserted that the moment was right for it to fulfill the country's national ambitions by aligning itself with the Entente, and declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 27 August 1916. Three Romanian armies invaded Transylvania through the Carpathian Mountains, pushing back the much smaller Austro-Hungarian First Army.
Important military rivalries resulted from the clash of Romania's national interests with the interests of neighbouring countries in the past. Romanian-Hungarian rivalry for the control of Transylvania. It started at the end of World War I when Transylvania was awarded to Romania through the Treaty of Trianon. Transylvania had an absolute ...
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 [257] [258] and the Romanian Legion in Siberia who resisted the Bolsheviks in cooperation ...