ROMANIA'S INTERVENTION IN THE BALKAN WARS 1913
ROMANIA'S INTERVENTION IN THE BALKAN WARS 1913

Author(s): Florian BICHIR
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Military history, Political history, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: Dobrogea; Quadrilater; 1940; Treaty of Craiova; Bulgarian revisionism;
Summary/Abstract: Romania's presence in the Second Balkan War was widely discussed at the time, most Western historians considering that the interests over the south-east of Dobrogea and its assertion as an indispensable arbiter in the establishment of the Balkan peace represent the main reasons that led the Romanian troops to cross the Danube and to hasten the end of the war. Jacob Gould Schuman (Schurman), in the work already cited, which appeared for the first time in 1916, stated that "Romania's request to receive territorial compensation in exchange for neutrality was harshly criticized by the independent press in the West". In his opinion, there were two reasons for Romanian participation in a war that, at first glance, did not concern the government in Bucharest: first, the possibility of Bulgaria becoming a much larger and, implicitly, much stronger country in the area, Romania in a position of inferiority, a fact that could not be accepted without any reaction; the second argument was the situation of the Vlachs from Macedonia but also from Albania, most of them loyal to the Greek cause, but linked to Romania by language and by belonging to the Orthodox Church.

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