Border history of Romania

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Romania's borders have been quite volatile through history. Here's a map based time line of the changes.


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Dacian Kingdom, during the rule of Burebista, 82 BC


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The region in the late 5th century


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The Balkans in 750


Wallachia, c. 1390


The region in 1490


The three principalities during the rule of Mihai Viteazul between 1600-1601


"Golden Age" of the independent Transylvania, ruled by Hungarian princes again, icl. parts of Hungary (Partium), between cca. 1606-1690


Principalities with Romanian population before Moldavia was stripped of Bessarabia, 1793-1812


Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia before the Union, 1856-1859


"Vechiul Regat" - Principality of Romania, 1878-1881, Kingdom of Romania, 1881-1913


Kingdom of Romania, 1920-1940


Romania after Second Vienna Arbitration and Treaty of Craiova, 1940-1941


Romania, 1941 - 1944


Romania after WWII. Lost territories are marked with light green.


Romania and Moldova 1947 - Present


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