Romania in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2016
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Romania's history before World War 1 was heavily influenced by the great powers surrounding them. Not only was a considerable minority of Romanians living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Romanian royal family had ties to Germany, Britain and Russia. After fighting in the Balkan Wars, Romania remained neutral during the first two years of World War 1 but decided to join when the moment seemed right.
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Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
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''Romania has only two good neighbors - Serbia and the Black Sea''
Romanian saying
And Serbs love Romanians too!
Nikolan Kosman yea Bulgarian and Romanian relations are overrated, we feel closer with Hungary then you guys.
Гот ми е още Look backstabbers - i didn't make that saying up and speak for yourself, nobody mentioned you here. Go back in cave!!!
That is a true saying...was before and still is now
Best Brothers is Moldova
greetz from Serbia my wife are romanian
Russia: hey Romania, can we use your country as a highway to Turkey?
Romania: Yeah, sure
Russia: Can you give us a couple of your men to help us fight
Romania: Ok, no prob
Russia: Can we take some of your land too? lol
Romania: Wait, wut?
It was a war it was not funny shut up big mounth if you were in that war you would pee your pants😡😡😡
@@CRISTIAN-dl8gi Maaan you are such a butthurt
@@CRISTIAN-dl8gi bro im romanian and i find this funny
@@CodyTheProtogen breh
@@alexalacareofostlatermopil6269 pai da dar a fost un razboi nu e de facut glume totusi e un pic amuzant
>Goes to Poland
>Talks about Romania
Both countries were good friends in the Interbelic (and WW2 , and after it ) period
keywords: carpathian mountains, Austro-Hungary
they are both Christian exceptions...polish guys are Slavs and (really devout, over 90% declare themselves as believers) Catholic Christians ... and Romanians are Latin and(really devout, over 90% declare themselves as believers) Orthodox Christians ... just a fun fact......may Cthulhu devour you last reader
We have no studio at the moment, so we needed to film this episode when we were in Poland.
The Great War thanks for covering Romania
This show is easily one of the best things on UA-cam.
i reactivated my Patreon account because of this show.
Thanks for your support.
Serving Russia and getting stabbed in the back... A classic.
well modern history was written by western anti russian historians. So 90% of so cold history is a pure fantasy
@@user-dx2sk4fe1k Yeah sure, even official state reports?
especially official state reports
@@user-dx2sk4fe1k hmm interesting seeing as this comes from someone with a russian name....
@@user-dx2sk4fe1k And most of Russian history today is written by Tsar Putin. Makes me so glad my grandfather came to the USA in 1905 and never looked back!
Good pronunciation of the Romanian names and great history, sir! La chapeau!
Actually, he did mispronounce Bratianu. But he did do better than expected.
Poor Przemyśl Fortress... even Indy managed to capture it!
lol
this joke is good.
******* Hoetzendorf
and also managed to pronounce it
More like captivate, but still.
Fun Fact : Moldova and Wallachia were forced by to ottoman empire to choose each a lord (domnitor) as to not unite the 2 states but both states chose the same guy on 2 different elections and they were basically united
Some Romanian sources claim the Allies promised to start an offensive on the Salonica front to keep the Bulgarians (and friends) pinned, giving Romania the opportunity to only deal with Austria-Hungary. Of course, the leaders of the country could've changed the plan after realizing that the offensive wasn't going to happen.
As a Romanian, I have to say the first 3-4 months of the war for us are pretty depressing to remember :).
they hold theyr own intersts
They should have joined the Central Powers
@@stevensamuels4041 The Central Powers didn't have that much to offer. Austria-Hungary wasn't going to budge on its treatment of Romanians, or cede any land. There was a segment that was pro-German in the elites, but some of those people were for neutrality, not for joining the war. The people that were actually for joining the Central Powers were a minority. Public opinion was very pro-Entente.
Given how unprepared the army turned out to be in 1916, I don't think the side we were on would've made a difference.
Yep! It was the British, French and Italians but instead they decided to help Serbia and Greece first and took their sweet old time while we were left all alone to fight on two different huge fronts because they convinced us to attack. Finally russia and the Cossacks arrived to help us but they left after like only a year in 1917 because of the horrible communist revolution that kicked off
I'll bet he's still not even wearing shoes though.
He does. With cardboard soles.
He is secretly Dutch *mind blown*
He is secretly Dutch *mind blown*
oh the in jokes. :)
Maybe he took the boots of a dead Austrian soldier, who knows...
I am of Romanian origins, and this was realy interesting and completed my knowledge of the 1'st world war.
achievement unlocked
Nu conteaza, dar bravo tie. (TL: It doesn't matter, but good for you.)
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RoyalVictorian me too
Thank you so much! I grew up in Romanian in the '70s and all the history I was taught in school was pure propaganda - had to unlearn all the lies I was told and re-learn the true historic facts. Awesome program - thanks again!
What Lie.
I'm romanian and I like to see when other people's country speak about us.Mulțumesc frumos şi multă baftă în continuare!
Macar de-ar vorbi de bine.
The awkward thing is.... the interbelic period is considered a golden age in Romanian history, although we kinda lost during WW1.
All thanks to mr Lenin.
I thought the golden age was when Elena Ceausescu collected shoes
Well we didn't lost.....i mean we lost the war, but got what we wanted, in fact even more than we expected (Basarabia).
Kosovo is Serbia
Yup, but that was after the interbelic period, which is considered a golden age in Romania.
Daniel Actually we were the end of WWI the lucky wining looser .I thing that this describe the best our situation.
the golden age was USA Word Cup 94
Their optimism wasn't *completely* blind, since their primary opponent (so they thought) was going to be Austria under Hotzendorf, and Austria had had a very tough time with Serbia and had lost a great deal to the Russians as well. But yes, for some reason wars always seem easy for those who don't have to fight them.
only if they could have had watched this show ...
It was a now or never moment. The generals and officers knew just how bad the army was but took a risk and it payed off.
Sir Adrian more like a gamble
Well it's true that Hotzendorf would inspire great optimism in any would be invader. BUT you have to also take in account that Mackensen is only about 100 km away from your border.
You do not start a fight unless you have at least a 1000 km buffer zone between you and Mackensen!
Hebl von Heblowitz
France promised Romania that they would win at Salonika and that Mackensen and Bulgaria would be defeated by October.
Romania PM Ion Bratianu - said to have influenced Romania to join the allies, but he is noted as having lived from 1820-1891.
I really enjoy your show! keep it up guys!
correction: 1821-1891
facepalm
+Indiana Neidell could you perhaps put an annotation on the video at that time, to sort this conundrum out :)
oho.
We got lots of politicians with the name Bratianu
Didn't he die in 1927? IDK what's up with the wikipedia article.
Romania did not had an optimistic fantasy about its army. They had the heart to fight for their land with Germany,Austro-Hungarians,Bulgarians and Ottomans while Russia fucked themselves up. It seems like Romania hold one of the greatest battles in 1917 on the Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz line while russian troops didn't want to fight and were asking for help from their romanian allies. Not only that, but the Allies promised Romania to keep the Bulgarian-Ottoman armies occupied in southern Bulgaria while Romania could fight in Transilvania. Guess who did not kept its promises and let 4 armies invade Romania?
With much respect for all of the countries who fought in the WW1, I think its fair to say that Allies lost southern front of Romania and Russia prefered to run and not fight instead of helping.
Even the odds, Romanian Army kept fighting for their country showing the true love for your land. Mackensen did not lose a single battle until he fought Romanian Army.
Much respect for the fallen soldiers! Let it be peace and happy times between our nations.
Rumania deserved to be destroyed for trusting the Western Powers lol, stupid naive country
Tu ești român, așa-i?
@@forthepotentates7526 Trusting the Western powers in WW1 brought us the unification of all our lands, not our destruction. In those who trusted the Central Powers got destroyed in the end. Look at Hungary, Austria or Turkey today.
True, but the russians didn't run away from war, they had just worse weapons than the german empire.
This is historically accurate and you can find documents and statements to prove it.
Great video guys, but you got something wrong. There were two Ion C. Brătianu, both politicians. The one you are talking about is Ion I. C. Brătianu, Prime Minister of Romania during the first world war. However you are showing dates for his father, Ion C. Brătianu.
In 6th grade, when I lived in Romania, I went to the Cuza high school. Nice to see hear about him somewhere other than that depressing school.
lack of preparation is the constant of Romanian Army.
Almost always at the beginning of a war the Romanian Army had to suffer and when put with the back at the wall to prevail with great sacrifices and as soon as the things calm down they forget everything what happen ASAP.
It was in:
- 1877: artillery purchased in the last moment from Germany. The heroism of the soldiers compensated a lot but the problem is that the Romanians always dreamed about this after and did nothing to improve the situation;
- 1913: ill prepared officers and medics;
- 1916: poor prepared officers (Battle of Turtucaia), poor prepared medics, antique artillery (Battle of Turtucaia), lack of ammo and weapons (all of them). They learned nothing from 3 years ago and was needed the entire effort of French Expeditionary Corp to train the Romanian Army. Even today, Gen. Henri Berthelot (French General) is considered a hero in Romania. I would say that he deserve an episode or at least a mention when we reach 1917 (Marasesti, Marasti, Oituz).
- 1941: one of the most diverse aviation equipment in existence (Romanian, Polish, German, British, French) which made a logistical nightmare, poor artillery, obsolete tanks, no adequate transportation, almost no antitank capabilities, some weapons were from WW1;
- 1989: really bad prepared army causing a lot of "friendly" fire between the Army units or even on civilians, lack of coordination between air forces and the commanding units, lack of communication;
- 2001-2016: lack of proper APC (despite the fact that in Romania it was the project of a modern APC and the capacity to produce it), logistical nightmare, poor food and water supplies to the forces (some embezzlement and stupidity acts cooperated here). In Iraq some units had 1 liter (for real!) of water per day and only when the menace of a mutiny appeared ... suddenly all the food and water appeared (magic?). The aviation is basically on its last leg, the Navy is obsolete, the .... you name it, is not taken care of. More than this, we are seeing a censorship in Romania regarding the activity of Romanian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We know nothing about what they are doing or done there and we look really stupid when a Polish or American veteran thanks Romanian for help. It happen to me at least 4 (four!) times. What the hell they have done there to deserve thanks???
To all of the above are only three causes: politics, nepotism and corruption. The Romanian politicians are the worst enemy of Romania.
Only the war is missing now...
Totally agree. However, politicians are our mirror. Not mine .. but ours, anyway.
This show just keeps getting better and better. I'd say its rapidly becoming the definitive modern guide to WW1.
Keep it up guys, you're awesome.
The prime minister was Ion I.C Bratianu, not his father, Ion C. Bratianu (correctly showed as living until 1891). The older Bratianu had been prime-minister during the russian-ottoman war of 1877; the young one died in 1927, after dominating the political scene from 1914 onwards.
Just amazing what you did here! Perfectly explained! You kinda covered all the main ideas of Romania's modern history. Congrats for the pronunciation of names, very good :)
Thank you Indy for the this great episode! My great grandfather fought and in the Great War against Austro-Hungarians and Germans.
shame on me i didn't know those details about my country during the WW1. thank you alot!
They're writing the fake history of Romania quicker than you can follow my son don't even mind it
Japan's role and aims in the Great War?
Territory
More territory
If Im not mistaken they took some naval bases in China and Indonesia from Germany
Recognition as an equal to the great powers of Europe. Even after the Russo-Japanese war, where Japan put Russia completely to shame, they were still viewed as an inferior nation due to the racist thinking's of the western powers at the time. Japan hoped that they could further prove themselves, and eventually stand on the same podium as nations such as France, Britain, and Germany.
They also hoped to gain territory in Asia at the expense of the Central Powers/Germany to both expand their influence, and to acquire resources, as the Japanese home islands had very little in the way of natural resources. This was actually a major reason that they were relatively (They were still forced to sign many unequal treaties) untouched by western colonial powers, unlike China which had many things in abundance.
All the territory
I’am so proud I can see videos like this,big love !
Another fine episode from the crew of The Great war !
I have only just discovered this site, and It is an excellent channel indeed. I am English, and we have a very narrow view of WW1. You open it up wonderfully. Your enthusiasm is evident, keep up the most excellent work.
Transylvania in the late 1800's was 54% ethnic Romanian, 30% Hungarian. What were the rest? Vampires?
Austrian or German
Ok so if the Austrian/German percentage of the population more closely allied itself politically with the Hungarian contingent then it would realistically seem to be more of even political ideology division?
+panzerabwerkanone pretty much
I AM VLADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRACULAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
+Kaiser Franz Joseph I No you're not. The profile says "Kaiser Franz Joseph". Now stop misleading people Franz, it ain't nice. Instead go keep an eye on Hoetzendorf or something, I'm sure the troublesome wretch got in trouble with the neighbours again.
Thank you. This is a great example of how the history can be presented correctly.
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing all the episodes with location footage :)
Well... hats off to you this time!!! This is a spot on video and a small piece of history. Proper research, good information, beautifully illustrated. Very enlightening for some I'm sure. Bravo!!! Bravo!!
Thanks.
As a bit of advice i would suggest that any future episodes in the museum could have Indy actively walking around the museum with each new scene taking place in a different exhibit. The episode was good overall but it felt weird that Indy was just standing there with helmets in the background. Can't wait to see you guys visit the Premyszl battlefields.
Yeah, that would have been better, but our day was packed as it was.
Awesome stuff. Been waiting for a year to see an episode about my country
Thank you for making a proper video about Romania. Took too long to wait (months), but at least it's better than the last episode. And it was really well done.
Months? We joined the war on August 27th 1916 and they already talked about that last week. They have to do these episodes as the war progresses, you know, can't skip ahead just because we like to see our favourite bit... :D
I died laughing when Indy said royaly pissed off
Yeah that made me laugh too.
The way hw just said royal piss off so calm and serious just made me die
What does an American know about royalty ?
+Stefan T that its the enemy?
+Stefan T well royalty is utter bullshit, if it was any real scientists wouldve found something in their blood already lol. It's just a bunch of cunts that give themselves powers over their totally normal genetics. Oh and they believe a god that never proved to exist gave them power, so they are psychotics too.
"Make Vlad Tepes great again."
Sorry, it was irresistible. Unfortunately, my knowledge about Romania is very poor (but I like Edward Maya and Akcent!). Only thing I got was that joke.
"Make Wallachia impale again."
Make Hungary Hungry Again.
They are pretty hungry already ;)
Well the whole Vlad Tepes is wrong since his namw is not Vlad or is an implaler.
Mihai Viteazul his name was Vlad Drăculea
I've been waiting for this episode yeah it's here
Thank you - excellent episode!
Moldavia wants to be called Moldova apparently. Kind of like the Czech Republic and Czechia.
And Estonia with Eesti.
Moldovia = the english translation of Moldova
Just like Hungary is the english transaltion of Magyarorszag or
Germany instead of Deutschland
Austria instead of Osterreich
Spain instead of Espana and so on
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanen
^ the term "german" exists in the german language. So I think there are 2 classes of foreign country names: either using a different but valid historical name, or just fucking up. I think "Germany" falls in the first category, while "Moldavia" in the 2nd :D
*****
Correct me if im wrong but, "german" in german language means Germanic, the people.
Like Slavs, Latins and Germanic
Bogdan Cozma That sounds about right. Personally I prefer a different name than the native one, like Germany is, rather than Moldavia for Moldova or Peking for Beijing, which are just plain broken I-can't-be-arsed-to-pronounce-correctly names :)
Another great Balkan episode after the one about Greece... very very interesting, thank you guys...
sarcasm ?
Kaiser Franz Joseph I
No I mean it... I liked both episodes a lot... I can say that they can be educating even for today's politics and how things may turn out for the small nations' alliances (changing them, get divided over to who's side enter a possible war etc)...
oh ok the ellipses confused me
Well, Romania is not quite considered within the Balkan region but I get your point
this was a great video, looked you guys up because of it.
Welcome to the show!
Thank you for doing this video, I'm really interested to know my country's history.
the only thing I remember after watching is that cute Russian princess
At least that's something.
well Carol the II was too busy whoring and gambling to care
OMG OMG OMG , loved the way Indy pronounced Wallachia and Moldavia !!!! :)))
Awesome video guys !
omg omg !!!
Bv
Awesome! (glad you kept the vest!)
Great work! I'm looking forward to more on location stuff. It's really interesting to hear about the smaller players roles in the great war. Are you all going to do battlefield walks?
I hope they do especially the Serbian front and Italian
Definitely something we want to do in the future.
very good video indy and i am very happy you talked about my country since it teached me quite a bit but you botched the names so bad i couldnt stop laughing. great video tho i love it
Well, our Romanian is a bit rusty.
„Iuon” :)))
romanian hard asf
Thanks, much helpful for my project!
This video was much more interesting than any history lesson in school. You sire got a ROYAL GOOD JOB!!!
"Olga Nikolaevna (1893-1953), Daughter of Nicholas II" (6:22)
I believe there's a mistake there, as Czar Nick's daughter Olga wasn't born until 1895 and died (together with the whole of her family, famously) in 1918...
It could have been right. If she was born in 1895 she was 19 years old in 1914 (21 in 1916), perfectly marriageable at the time.
+Constantin Caraivan I'm not disputing it can't be her, I'm just saying they got the dates wrong.
....yeah. That's a pretty bad mistake there. The dates are wrong.
sadly no one survived... they even found the body's of Anastasia and young Alexei ...
+Marius-Adrian Zoltan I know...
not to long ago i found out that my great great grandfather was romanian and fought in the war. i have also two other great grandfathers who faught for canada germany and france. crazy to think you can have so many family members fight for diffrent sides in the war
they finally made LOVE not WAR
ps, you are not special snowflake, this happens quite a lot, especially in Europe, even in relative modern wars, i.e there are a lot of Croat-Serb, or Russian-Ukrainian people getting married
I know. I just never knew that i was romanian. I always thought i was just French and german
Well I live in Transylvania and I'm romanian, but like many of the people(if not most) who live here I have also hungarian and german ancestors.
Great family history.
Be proud. Romanians are fierce,not even scared of Ottomans or Russians,you should start reading about Stefan The Great(Stefan cel Mare).
My ancestors are polish origin,came in Moldova in Stefan's timeline :)
Its always cool to know about unknown countries in important events
This series just gets better and better ........ Should be on TV .
Yo! You got the wrong Bratianu( The name and the dates at least. You got the picture right though!). The one that you show died in 1891 as it is written in your video also at 08:22. The one that was actually prime minister during 1916 is this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_I._C._Br%C4%83tianu. Small differences but still get it right and make your researche more accurate! Btw big thumbs up for the episode from Bucharest!
Oh no... Not the Balkans... Very afraid to check the comments. Poor Flo
Thanks again!
Excellent summary.
The video discusses everything except Romania during the war. It talks about Romania when other countries were at war. Not about the Romanian part of the war.
That's in the other video's titled in this series....
True
Well yeah. It's a companion piece to the WW1 Week by Week series, where they of course talk about Romania every week after they join.
You made a mistake when edited. You put the same lifespan on Carol II and the grand Duchess.
Very well explained....thanks a lot...
Outstanding exposition of events regarding Romania .
Make one about Portugal
Another episode in which we Balkans argue about who's more wronged but at the same time who's prevailed over the rest...
V. Athanasiou we're all congenital victims
Ti kaneis re
Nice work man.
very informative video. thank you!
A preplanned offensive of 30 days and a decisive battle with the Austrians? There is Jomini again. ;)
they could have waited until November, and still have the war over with by Christmas..
What save the austro-hungarian army was the german suport (Falkenhayn and von Mackensen offensives); prior to that they were defeted, infact helter skeltered.
great episod. we got with much of stories releted by grandfathers and censored historical facts by commies but you sank very deep into. bravo great work. blessings to you and crew.
+andrew brindescu Man, it was really hard for our fan who helped us out even to make sense of it all.
which type of facts in this video were censored during the period of communist Romania? Thank you in advance!
@Giorgos Bookhunte For example in Communist Historical Books did not exist the First and Second Balkan War, because Ro had just defensive wars and WWI was a liberation War for Transilvania. Carol or Ferdinad was not mentioned in the book etc etc
Dyogene So
thank you!
Greetings from Romania!Your work is holy.
Thanks Indy !
I'm Romanian. I like my country. Like if you are romanian.
Romanii care văd comentariul sa dea like
Am fost destul de norocos pentru a vizita România anul trecut, şi a fost incredibil. Data viitoare am nevoie pentru a vedea site-uri de la război.
Thank you for talking about Romania's involvement. Really appreciate it.
they were quite important
I know :)
:)
First of all, I want to say that your episodes are great and entertaining to watch. Second of all, I want to ask you if you are going to do a special episode on Ion Antonescu(Chief of the Army in WW1 and Romania's Supreme Commander and fascist leader during ww2) about what he did in the Great War.
didn't they do that?
+Kaiser Franz Joseph I no?
Umm... I think you're confusing "chief of staff", which then major Antonescu was in WW1 (he was General Constantin Prezan's chief of staff, basically an aide-de-camp) with "chief of the army", which was General (later Marshall) Alexandru Averescu. Antonescu might have been a capable commander, but he didn't do enough during ww1 to warrant an episode of TGW.
how to get in touch with that social media guy flo ?
+ln murthy You just did. Can also write us a message on Facebook
i will use facebook, its much better
+The Great War Will u talk about Finland ? just asking
I am not from finland but i could help you guys with research
ln murthy its cuz u know 2017 its 100 years from we getting independence and then we had a civil war and i have good english
The Grand Duchess Olga was born in 1895, not 1893 (her parents weren't married until 1894) and she died in 1918, killed with her family. Her aunt, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna lived 1882-1960, so no clue where this "1893-1950" comes from.
Being an American that doesn't understand these alliances and such, I am going to have to watch this a few times to try to get it straight, but I still enjoyed it.
A point on facts:
Wallachia, Moldavia & Transylvania where medieval principalities - associating them with the Roman Empire makes no sense. The Roman Empire conquered Dacia after two costly wars in the II century AD which roughly comprised the area where these three principalities later developed.
At the beginning of xx century Romania was a Central Powers' ally and looked with apprehension at Bulgaria's predatory behavior in the Balkans. Bulgaria was until the end of the First Balkan War a Russian satellite. When Romania entered the Second Balkan War on the side of Greece and Serbia, it did so not because Bulgaria forgot to gave her the town of Silistra, but because a "Greater Bulgaria" would have upset the regional balance of power. Romania's involvement in the Second Balkan War is pretty important as it marks the first formal brake with the Central Powers, which then supported Bulgaria. Romania intervened in the war with the full assent of the Entente powers and Serbia engaged Bulgarian forces after a plan drawn up by the Romanian staff.
Up until 1914 Romania's adherence to the Triple Alliance aka the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) was an open secret, though never formally acknowledged by Romania's government.French diplomacy squarely placed Romania in the Central Powers camp in the early 1900s. Starting with 1906-1907 Romania changed course gradually towards the Entente as Russia wasn't perceived as a grave threat anymore and because of Austro-Hungary's policies concerning ethnic minorities. Romania was actively involved in supporting the Romanians living in Transylvania and Hungary by financing their cultural and political associations, although it refrained from actively undermining the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For the latter's diplomacy it became evident especially after 1907 that Romania will not join the Central Powers in a conflict with the Entente.
The 1914 Crown Council was dramatic, but not because of the revelation of the alliance with the Central Powers. Every Romanian prime-minister was briefed by the king when taking office about the alliance. It was dramatic because it showed the rifts inside the Romanian elite and because King Carol I could not convince the liberal opposition to go to war against the Entente Powers. It was a bitter defeat for the old king which drove him to his grave two years later.
Very good observation concerning Russia not wanting Romania as an ally, Russia knew that Romania was militarily weak and any lengthening of the Eastern front would not be in its favor. Actually Romania may have inadvertently help foster the Russian Revolution.
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I'm Romanian and I'm glad I have found this channel and Indy :D. You are doing a fantastic job.
dude your awesome ... to bad not enough people watch these
Love how he goes on location
When you said that neutral Romania was a guard for Russia's southern flank, didn't the learn anything from Belgium? They were neutral and protecting France's northern border, but the Germans siding care
Then Hoetzendorf came along
I highly doubt the Germans would have invaded a neutral country ruled by the Kaiser's relative, especially when Bismark himself promised eternal German protection of said country at the treaty of Berlin.
Too bad Bismarck wasn't in charge anymore
Oh that guy ....
Didn't Olga Nikolaevna die in 1918 with rest of the Romanovs?
yep, Bolshevik bullet to the head, best royalty remover ever
Great video
Very informative. Thank You from a Romanian
Austria-Hungary was not an agressor power in Transylvania. When hungarians came to Europe in the 10th century they occupied it and after the mongol raids in 1241-42 they asked romanians to repopulate the area under Hungarian rule. And it was okay until the nationalism came in.
Before hungarian came there was no one there
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There is no record of Hungarians settling Romanians in Transylvania. The only Hungarian records regarding Romanians in the 13th century describe them as natives in the region. After the mongol raids, Hungarians started colonizing Transylvania with Germans, Hungarians, Teutons and Szeklers over the remaining Romanian population.
Vlach "romanian" migration from Balkan to Cumania (Valachia) started in the XIII. , XIV. century. The majority of vlachs "romanians" migrated in XVII. , XVIII. century in Transylvania and after romanian ocupation 1918 with forced romanianization 2000000 from Moldova and Oltenia.
@@bujdososzekely Sorry, there is no proof about this mythical migration. 13th century Hungarian documents mention Romanian as natives in Transylvania. The demographic study conducted by Jean W. Sedlar found out that Romanians were 2/3 of the total population of Transylvania before 1241. The demographic study conducted by George White attested that Romanians were 60% of the population of Transylvania in year 1600. You are regurgitating Hungarian propaganda. There was no romanization or colonization done after 1918. Just simple internal migration. The population of Transylvania only increased by 10% from 1918 to 1944 and that was due to a higher birth rate among Romanians. The Hungarian population slightly decreased because the Hungarians that were colonized in Transylvania from 1867 to 1918 left the land.
2019
We still have the same problems
Hi! Great job as usual! But you got the dates for Olga Nikolaevna wrong at 6:26. She was born in 1895 and died in 1918, together with her family during the Russian Revolution.
Thank you for making a special episode on Romania before the war, I really wanted to hear a neutral opinion on this matter since I know that the history taught in our schools has a level of subjectively, I didn't even know Romania invaded Bulgaria, because it was not taught, great work, by the way, it is really funny how you pronounce Romanian names and places :D
Hey, guys! Great episode again. I love that you are trying to be neutral. But when saying that Transylvania was ethnically Romanian, why dont you say about the ethnicity of Macedonia? Or Dobrogea? I really appreciate your efforts, but Bulgaria is very often regarded as an aggressor and Romania and Serbia as victims, which cant be agreed if 'measured with the same yardstick'.
+Andrey Andreev We didn't say it "was ethically Romanian" we said it was perceived as such by the Romanians.
ethnicity of Northern Dobrogea? Well in 1878 Romanians represented 21% of the people while Bulgarians only 13,3%......so yeah.......about Macedonia i don't know, maybe a fellow Serbian viewer will tell us.
But no hate, i really like Bulgaria :)
I don't know where are you looking at, but even the English sources show that in Constanta, Tulcea, etc in 1878 there were more Bulgarians in Northern. As for the Serbians, they created a whole new nation in order to break our struggle for unification off. But however, there are French maps (not only Bulgarian.or Greek) which are showing the truth. And quite interestingly, Vlachs are the second biggest minority in Macedonia. Maybe you know, but after Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising (1903) and the Ottomans supressed it violently, there were protests in Sofia and.. Bucharest in 1906.
Andrey Andreev
I will try to give you the link, but it's probably that youtube will auto-mark my comment as spam....since it's a link
Andrey Andreev
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dobruja#Demographics
While it's cool that you're shooting on location, you might want to choose a different spot. The acoustics are terrible.
+canpiv09 The alternative was not having the video man. We don't have a studio at the moment and this was the most suitable and stable environment we found.
I beg to differ, personally I'm not too bothered with audio quality unless it's recorded with a terrible mic or really laggy.
I liked the content so much i never tought about the sound one bit.. lol
+The Great War , sound was not an issue. people just like to bitch...
We are way too spoiled these days. I'm just happy that they upload this great content for free.
And the audio is not that annoying eitherway
Nice video about Romania. Nice job.
Fun fact 2: In 1878, immediately after gaining independence Bulgaria made a proposition to Romania of uniting in a single Balkan state with the capital at Bucharest. The proposal was turned down because the Romanian government did not want have a common border with the ottoman empire anymore and wanted Bulgaria as a buffer state.
another fun fact in the same period there was a idea of a trans Danubian Empire, or better said a Lower Danube Commonwealth if you may, basically the AH Empire+Southern Slav Nations + Romania (basically today's Eastern Half of the E.U), the benefits were that the AH empire would gain Black Sea entrance as for Romania they would realise the big dream of reuniting the 3 Principalities in a way ... the same for the big dream( after the Yugoslav state truly a real life nightmare) of the Unification of all Southern Slavs
Actually it is the opposite. Romania proposed to Bulgaria to unite, but Russia as always won't like a big, united country in the Balkans and forced Bulgaria to reject the offer.
Toshko Milkinski
Why would Romania propose to Bulgaria when Romanian foreign policy at the time was get away from the ottoman empire as fast as possible.
But why would Bulgaria propose to unite, too. Those are some questions we may never get an answer.
Toshko Milkinski
Bulgaria was a new country with no army, diplomatic ties, and currency sorrounded by two enemies (serbia and the turks) and two neutral countries (romania and greece), until 1913 we never to war against one another so there was no historical animosity liek with the greeks plus we shared an empire until the Mongols invaded the north of the danube
Great job !!! Awsome !!! 🎉🎉🎉 Respect from Romania !!!🎉🎉🎉
Harambe's role in WW1 next?
And it hasn't aged well
Very nice.
Hello, my name is Emanuel and I am from Romania,i live in Oituz one of the most important areas during the First World War.
I think the Romanian army did something unique during the war,accepting a woman to fight on the front, she became a lieutenant.
Here name was Ecaterina Teodoroiu.
I'd love to help you if you'd like to do an episode about her.
Thank you,and I love your episodes,great content and information.
She became a honorific lieutenant.. Not really earned the title.. If you like so much the subiect.. Why dont make you a video..??
@@surducalexandru9553 relax. you got your manhood attacked or something?
sometimes even women are capable of doing a job normally a man required to do.
@@LevisH21...completly unrelated to the subject you are..
Can someone explain me if there are ties between Swiss Rätoromanian and Romanian ? oO
Linguistically, yes (they're both based on spoken/"vulgar" Latin). Culturally, no - because geography and because Switzerland was always closed.
Italian and Romanian are so close to each other that one can basically say that Italian is basically Romanian with slightly fewer words and a weird accent - or that Romanian is basically Italian with a few Slavic loanwords and a harsh(er) accent.
Thank you very much :)
Yes, there is some linguistical and cultural ties, very deep rooted in our common ancestry. More obvious in the very far past , less visible nowadays these common roots are particularly connected with the pastoral lifestyle of the people living on the heights of mountains. Apparently there is a more close linguistical resemblance between Romanian and Rumantsch (particularly the Rumantsch dialect spoken around Engadin) which is part of the family of Rhaeto-Romance languages. Not in the very long past the Romanians used to call themselves "Rumân" (singular) - "Rumâni" (plural) and so is the way that in other European peoples' languages we used (and still being ) to be called : Rumano (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese), Roumain (French), Rumenien (German), Rumanian (English), Rumuni (Rumunsky) in most of Slavic languages and so on. Sometimes Romanians used to be called Valahi, Vlahi, Vlasi, Vlaci, Blaci, Blaha, Blahoi, Wallachen, Valacky, Ollah, Olasz, Ollachen, etc. by other peoples, each one according to its own linguistical capabilities hence the multitude of forms. However, the word Valah with all its variations it's an exonym never assumed by Romanians themselves and being most of the time regarded as a pejorative term. Anyway, there is some studies about Rhaeto-Romance languages and the people living on the heights of Alps done in mid - late thirties by the famous Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga on its written study called "Paralelisme româno - helvetice". In the light of the latest findings it appears more and more clear that our common cultural, spiritual and linguistical ancestry based mainly on the pastoral lifestyle (but not only...) stretches all along the heights of mountains from Atlantic Ocean to Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea, and possibly even further, and goes back for many thousands of years, possibly to the times of Pelasgians - Thracians or whatever the name for that primary people of Europe used to be. It would be very interesting to have a trip from mountain height to mountain height from British Isles to the Pyrenees continuing to the Alps then to the Carpathians, to the Balkans until the Urals to see how much we still understand each other, at least on terms of pastoral culture and lifestyle. Mainly on the heights of whole Balkanic Peninsula and mostly having a pastoral way of life still living today the Romanians closest relatives : the Aromanians or Arumanians or how they call themselves "Arumân" or "Armân". They speak what is known to be one of those four dialects of Romanian language. Personally, I believe that if the Aromanians and Romanians listen carefully the Rumantsch and other Rhaeto-Roman dialects, and vice-versa, they will understand fairly well each other. Possibly a fair mutually understanding with Catalan language spoken in province of Catalonia in Spain, as well. I hope this will help you, somehow. La revedere !