Romania's secret alliance with Austria-Hungary has done…
1900 CE
Romania's secret alliance with Austria-Hungary has done little to ease the strain in relations between the two countries that Hungary is creating with its efforts to Magyarize the Romanian majority of Transylvania, where Romanian nationalism smolders.
The National Party advocates restoration of Transylvania's historic autonomy; Hungary, however, opposes both autonomy and any expanded voting rights that would give Romanians the region's dominant voice.
By the turn of the century, Bucharest's calls for unification of Romanians in Transylvania, Bukovina, and Bessarabia grows stronger, and ...