Tirana soon entered into trade agreements with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Soviet Union.

In 1916 Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, after the Entente agreed to recognize Romanian rights over Transylvania, which was part of Austria-Hungary until that time.

Romania entered World War II under the command of the German Wehrmacht in June 1941, declaring war to the Soviet Union in order to recover Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.

Within months, Antonescu had crushed the Iron Guard, and the subsequent year Romania entered the war on the side of the Axis powers.

After 1916, when the Kingdom of Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, Ion Antonescu acted as chief of staff for General Constantin Prezan.

Soon Romania entered the war and attacked Bulgaria from the north.

Romania and Yugoslavia were also the only Eastern European countries that entered into trade agreements with the European Economic Community before the fall of the Communist bloc.

It has been noted that no West-East migration occurred when this possibility arose after the unification of the German states, and that practically no Germans have returned to the East after the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania entered the European Union.

In 1939, the USSR entered into the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany that contained a secret protocol that divided Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence.

After a June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum demanding Bessarabia, Bukovina, and the Hertza region from Romania, the Soviets entered these areas, Romania caved to Soviet demands and the Soviets occupied the territories.

# Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied territories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality ; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

Romania had entered the war due to a dispute over Southern Dobruja.

* All those conventions were replaced by a comprehensive treaty of alliance between the governments of Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, signed in Strbské Pleso on June 27, 1930 and entered into effect " immediately ", in the phrasing of article 6.

It entered in competition with one of the traditional parties of the Romanian Kingdom, the National Liberal Party, and with its leader Ion I. C. Brătianu, when the Peasants ' Party deadlocked the Parliament of Romania with calls for a widespread land reform.

Too young for conscription in 1916, when Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, Corneliu nonetheless tried his best to enlist and fight in the subsequent campaign.

On August 17, 1916, Romania entered the war on the Allied side, mobilizing an army of 23 divisions.

In 1875, Baptists entered Transylvania from Hungary, which is largely responsible for the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania.

In 2004, the Baptist Union of Romania and the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania entered into a three-year partnership with the Missouri Baptist Convention ( an affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention ), primarily for the purpose of evangelism and starting new churches.

After his return to Romania, Catargiu entered political life as a firm conservative.

The Treaty of Peace with Romania was signed on February 10, 1947 and entered into force on September 15, 1947.

In 1953, following a family tradition, Serrano entered the diplomatic corps and held various ambassadorial posts for Chile during the Ibáñez, Alessandri and Frei administrations from 1953 to 1970, in India ( 1953 – 62 ), Yugoslavia ( 1962 – 64 ), Romania, Bulgaria, and Austria ( 1964 – 70 ).

Following the free travel agreement and politic of the post – Cold War period, as well as hardship of the life in the post 1990s economic depression, Romania has an increasingly large diaspora.

Numerous malls and large shopping centres have been built since the late 1990s, such as AFI Palace Cotroceni, Sun Plaza, Băneasa Shopping City, Plaza Romania, Unirea Shopping Center and Liberty Center.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

For instance, " the overthrow of the social and political structures in the 1990s " in Romania led to an increase in the incidence rate of trichinosis.

Cioran revised The Transfiguration of Romania heavily in its second edition released in the 1990s, eliminating numerous passages he considered extremist or " pretentious and stupid.

The Romanian leu, the currency used in Romania, features Stephen on the coins of 20 lei, issued in the 1990s.

This, combined with the economic decline that Romania faced in the 1990s due to

Since hip hop was a fairly new phenomena in Romania in the 1990s, studio time was very limited for independent artists and musicians.

Expansion continued into Africa in the 1990s and on other continents into Hungary ( 1993 ), China ( 1995 ), Romania, Poland ( 1995 – 96 ), Slovakia ( 1997 ), and Russia ( 1998 ), the Czech Republic ( 1999 ), India ( 2000 ) and Central America in 2001.

During the 1990s, World Vision began focusing on the needs of children who had been orphaned in Uganda, Romania, and Somalia in response to AIDS, neglect, and civil war respectively.

In the late 1990s eighty percent of the workforce still depended upon the mines for work and income, and by 2010 this number was still high, although the economic demographics of the region had undergone significant changes in recent years, particularly with the admittance of Romania into the European Union in 2007.

In Central and Eastern Europe, private companies expanded during the late 1990s, especially in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.

Gheorghe Geci Popescu ( born 9 October 1967 in Calafat ) is a retired Romanian football defender, former captain of FC Barcelona and key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s.

He was editor-in-chief of the daily Evenimentul Zilei during its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600, 000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well.

* Caritas ( Ponzi scheme ), a pyramid investment / Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

In the cases of Romania and Hungary, the reparation terms as set forth in their armistices were relatively high and were not revised.

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which resulted in the fall of Communism, Romania was left with one of the largest, most dense and most frequently-used railway networks in Europe ; but at the same time having relatively outdated infrastructure.

Despite the relatively recent acquisition of these territories, Romanians had seen them as historically belonging to Romania, and the fact that so much land was lost without a fight shattered the underpinnings of King Carol's power.

These factors combined to put Romania under Gheorghiu-Dej on a relatively independent and nationalist route.

The group released Mafia in late 1995 and, since music distribution was virtually inexistent in Romania at the time, the album was only available for a relatively short period of time in Bucharest, becoming valuable fan memorabilia over time.

Diorite is a relatively rare rock ; source localities include Leicestershire ; UK ( one name for microdiorite-Markfieldite-exists due to the rock being found in the village of Markfield ), Sondrio, Italy ; Thuringia and Saxony in Germany ; Finland ; Romania ; Northeastern Turkey ; central Sweden ; Scotland ; the Darrans range of New Zealand ; the Andes Mountains ; the Isle of Guernsey ; Basin and Range province ; Minnesota in the USA, and Idahet in Egypt.

This was due to a number of factors: the country's lack of industrial development, which resulted in a relatively small working class and a large peasant population ; the minor impact of Marxism among Romanian intellectuals ; the success of state repression in driving the party underground and limiting its activities ; and finally, the party's " anti-national " policy, as it began to be stated in the 1920s — supervised by the Comintern, this policy called for the breakup of Greater Romania, which was regarded as a colonial entity " illegally occupying " Transylvania, Dobruja, Bessarabia and Bukovina ( regions that, the communists argued, had been denied the right of self-determination ).

As part of his reflection on post-1900 realities, Pătrăşcanu contended that, relatively delayed in comparison to economies of the Western world, Romania had become subject to " primitive accumulation of capital ", where the role of colonialism was taken by exploitation of the peasantry.

Transition trajectories also differ in terms of the extent of central planning being relinquished ( e. g., high centralized coordination among the CIS states ) as well as the scope of liberalization efforts being undertaken ( e. g., relatively limited in Romania ).

As the country was embarking on the course that led to the creation of a Greater Romania ( confirmed by the treaties of Saint-Germain, Neuilly and Trianon ), its capital witnessed a relatively expanded social crisis-on December 26, 1918, troops fired on compositors engaged in a strike, who had been agitated by the newly-created Socialist Party of Romania.

Kovač is also a relatively frequent surname in Romania and Kovács is one of the most frequent surnames in Hungary.