Greater Romania

For other uses, see România Mare.
Administrative map of Romania in 1930

The term Greater Romania (Romanian: România Mare) usually refers to the borders of the Kingdom of Romania in the interwar period,[1] achieved after the Great Union. It also refers to a pan-nationalist[2][3] idea.

As a concept, its main goal is the creation of a nation-state which would incorporate all Romanian speakers.[4][5][6][7][8] In 1920, after the incorporation of Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș, the Romanian state reached its largest peacetime geographical extent ever (295,049 km2). Today, the concept serves as a guiding principle for the unification of Moldova and Romania.

The idea is comparable to other similar conceptions such as the Greater Bulgaria, Megali Idea, Greater Yugoslavia, Greater Hungary and Greater Italy.[9][10]

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  2. ^ Peter Truscott, Russia First: Breaking with the West, I.B.Tauris, 1997, p. 72
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  4. ^ "The Romanian Holocaust in Memory and Commemoration, The Jewish fate during World War II in postwar commemoration". University of Amsterdam. 2012. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
  5. ^ Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building & Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930, Cornell University Press, 2000, p. 4 and p. 302
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ivan T. Berend was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Lavinia Stan, Lucian Turcescu, Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania, Oxford University Press, 2007 p. 53
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Arbatov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Giuseppe Motta, Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, Volume 1 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, p. 11
  10. ^ Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Part 1, LIT Verlag Münster, 2008, p. 52