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Before you bidding - Payment – Paypal Items are usually shipped the following business day payment is received. ============================================================== condition-pleae see photos,some enamal missing Romania during World War I Romanian Campaign Part of the Balkans Campaign of World War I Romanian troops at Mărăşeşti battlefield in 1917. Date August 1916 – December 1917, November 1918 Location Romania Result December 1917: Central Powers victory, Focşani Armistice, Treaty of Bucharest November 1918: Allied victory, Treaty of Versailles Belligerents German Empire Bulgaria Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Romania Russia Commanders and leaders Erich von Falkenhayn August von Mackensen Nikola Zhekov Panteley Kiselov Stefan Toshev Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf Mustafa Hilmi Pasha Ferdinand I Constantin Prezan Alexandru Averescu Eremia Grigorescu Ion Dragalina Ioan Culcer Artur Văitoianu Constantin Coandă Ion Antonescu Aleksei Brusilov Andrei Zayonchkovski Dmitry Shcherbachev Units involved Ninth Army Danube Army First Army Third Army First Army Second Army Third Army Fourth Army Romanian-Russian Army Fourth Army Sixth Army Ninth Army Strength 750,000 [1] 143,049 (1916) [2] 20,000 (1916) [3] 1916: [1] [4] 658,088 50,000 1917: [5] 400,000 1,000,000 Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown Unknown 20,000 [6] 535,706–800,000 casualties [7] [8] Unknown [show ]v t e Romanian Campaign [show ]v t e Theatres of World War I The Romanian campaign was part of the Balkan theatre of World War I , with Romania and Russia allied against the armies of the Central Powers . Fighting took place from August 1916 to December 1917, across most of present-day Romania, including Transylvania , which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, as well as southern Dobruja , which is currently part of Bulgaria .Romania entered the war in an attempt to seize Transylvania, a historical province of Hungary with a majority-Romanian population. Despite initial successes, the combined Russo-Romanian forces suffered several setbacks and by the end of 1916 only Moldavia remained under Allied control. After several defensive victories in 1917, the Allied front collapsed when the Bolsheviks took Russia out of the war and Romania, left surrounded by the Central Powers, signed an armistice at Focşani . On November 10, 1918, just one day before the German armistice and when all the other Central Powers had already capitulated, Romania belatedly re-entered the war. By then, about 220,000 Romanian soldiers had been killed, representing about 6% of total Entente military deaths. Contents [ hide ] 1 Before the war 2 Course of the campaign 2.1 Kingdom of Romania enters the war, late August 1916 2.2 The counteroffensive of the Central Powers (September–December 1916) 2.3 Stabilization and stalemate (1917) 3 Aftermath 3.1 Treaty of Bucharest 3.2 Romania reenters the war, November 1918 4 Military analysis of the campaign 5 See also 6 References 7 Sources 8 External links Before the war [ edit ]The Kingdom of Romania was ruled by kings of the House of Hohenzollern from 1866. The King of Romania , Carol I of Hohenzollern , had signed a secret treaty with the Triple Alliance in 1883 which stipulated that Romania would be obliged to go to war only in the event Austro-Hungarian Empire was attacked. While Carol wanted to enter World War I as an ally of the Central Powers, the Romanian public and the political parties were in favor of joining the Triple Entente . Romania remained neutral when the war started, arguing that Austria-Hungary itself had started the war and, consequently, Romania was under no formal obligation to join it.In return for entering the war on Allied side, the Kingdom of Romania demanded recognition of its rights over the territory of Transylvania , whi... read more

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