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Greater Romania (''România Mare'') generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First and Second World War s, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever. Nowadays, the term may carry a Nationalistic connotation, especially when used in political contexts. This sense is described on the Great Romania Party Article . The Romanian term ''România Întregită'' is sometimes used to avoid this connotation. In 1918 , at the end of World War I , Transylvania , Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the Romanian Old Kingdom . Transylvania united by a ''Proclamation of Union'' of Alba Iulia voted by the Deputies of the Romanians from Transylvania; in Bukovina, a National Council representing only the Romanian population of the province voted for union with Romania; Bessarabia, having declared its independence from Russia in 1917 by the Conference of the Country (Sfatul Ţării), called in Romanian troops to protect the province from the Bolshevik s who were spreading the Russian Revolution . The union of the regions of Transylvania, Maramureş , Crişana and Banat with the Old Kingdom of Romania was ratified in 1920 by the Treaty Of Trianon which recognised the sovereignty of Romania over these regions and settled the border between the independent Republic of Hungary and the Kingdom Of Romania . The union of Bukovina and Bessarabia with Romania was ratified in 1920 by the Treaty Of Versailles . Romania had also recently acquired the Southern Dobruja territory called the ''Cadrilater'' ("Quadrilateral") from Bulgaria as a result of its victory in the Second Balkan War in 1913 . Romania retained these borders from 1920 to 1940. In that year, it lost Bessarabia and Bukovina to the Soviet Union after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , lost the considerable territory of Northern Transylvania to Hungary in the Second Vienna Arbitration , and lost the ''Cadrilater'' to Bulgaria in the Treaty Of Craiova . In the course of World War II, Romania (in alliance with the Axis Powers took back Bessarabia and made significant further territorial gains at the expense of the Soviet Union . These were lost again as the tide of war turned. After the war, they regained territories lost to Hungary, but not those lost to Bulgaria or the Soviet Union. While the resulting, modern borders of Romania are smaller than in the Greater Romania era, the continued inclusion of Transylvania means that the country today is considerably larger than it was before World War I. SEE ALSO |
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