Word: bessarabia
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Roumania has emerged from the war with nearly double the territory and the population with which she entered it. The old Russian province of Bessarabia which has been actually a consenting part of the Roumanian kingdom for some months has now been legally recognized by the great powers of Europe as part of this nation...
...Russian treachery. However, upon the abolition by the Allies' victory of the Treaty of Bucharest in which she had surrendered to Hungary certain valuable frontier districts, she came into possession of all of the Hapsburg territories which she had long desired. With these territories and the province of Bessarabia, Roumania becomes a powerful factor in the affairs of Europe...