Treaty of Bucharest (1918)

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A French caricature on the treaty: William II points a dagger at a woman (Romania), while showing her the Peace Treaty.

Delegates at the Peace of Bucharest.

The Treaty of Bucharest was a peace treaty which the German Empire forced Romania to sign on May 7, 1918, following the Romanian campaign of 1916-1917.

Among its terms:

• Romania had to return Southern Dobruja (the Cadrilater) and to cede the southern part of Northern Dobruja (see the map) to Bulgaria, while the rest of the province remained under the joint control of the Central Powers.
• Romania had to give Austria-Hungary control of the passes of the Carpathian Mountains.
• Romania had to lease its oil wells to Germany for 90 years.

However, King Ferdinand I of Romania refused to sign the treaty (already ratified by the Romanian Parliament) and after the Central Powers were defeated in November 1918, it was nullified by the Marghiloman government and the terms of the Armistice of 11 November.

In 1919, Germany was forced in the Treaty of Versailles, to renounce all the benefits provided by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918.^[1]

Map of Dobruja

[edit] See also

• Romanian Campaign (World War I)
• Treaty of Bucharest, 1812
• Treaty of Bucharest, 1913
• Treaty of Bucharest, 1916

[edit] External links

• Full text of the Treaty of Bucharest
• The Treaty of Bucharest on FirstWorldWar.com
• Territory which was ceded to the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Romania following the Treaty of Bucharest, 1918

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