Self-determination acts of the Romanian provinces reunified, the legal and political basis of the Great Union Cover Image

Actele de autodeterminare ale provinciilor româneşti reunificate, fundament juridico-politic al Marii Uniri
Self-determination acts of the Romanian provinces reunified, the legal and political basis of the Great Union

Author(s): Ion Guceac
Subject(s): History of Law, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: self-determination; 1918 unification; Bessarabia; Bukovina; peace treaties; Old Kingdom; Greater Romania; international recognition; Centenary; the principle of nationalities;

Summary/Abstract: The acts of unification with the “Old Kingdom” of Romania of 1918: March 27th/April 9th – the Declaration of the National Council of Kishinev; November 15th/28th – the Decision of the National Council of Bukovina in Chernivtsi; and November 18th/December 1st – the Resolution of the National Assembly of Alba Iulia, stand as acts of freely consented self- determination, based on the principle of nationalities, expressing the solid will of the populations of the said territories. They have expressed ineluctable historical evolutions, have repaired illegitimate and illegal relations (such as the annexation of Bukovina in 1775, or of Bessarabia, in 1812) and have been translated, in the context of the great European empires (Austro-Hungarian and Russian) as the will of unification to the Motherland and the completion of the process of creation of the national, unitary, Romanian state. The said acts of self-determination have been recognized internationally through the peace treatises of 1919-1920, following the Paris Peace Conference.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-59
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Romanian