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Facets of the Military Collaboration Between Romania and Serbia in the Latter Half of 1916

  • TITLU în română: Aspecte ale colaborării militare româno-sârbe în a doua jumătate a anului 1916
  • Subiect: As part of the Allied Army, Serbian military forces fought on the Thessaloniki front together with French, Italian and Russian allies against the armies of Germany and Bulgaria. As a condition for its participation in the war against the Central Powers, Romania required to open up an Allied front at Thessaloniki. Between August and December 1916, the Serbian Army, reduced to a contingent of 36. 000 soldiers, fiercely fought the common enemies of Serbia and Romania, in order to free its homeland from foreign occupation. ln December, Serbian divisions nearly broke through the enemy lines at Thessaloniki, but failed to receive any more support from the Allied forces who, by then decided to halt the offensive, as a resuit of conceding heavy losses at the onset of the battle. Therefore, the Allied offensive of Thessaloniki, supported only by the Serbian Army, succeeded in hindering the full-fledged advance of the armies of Germany and Bulgaria into Romania, in the autumn of 1916. On the Dobrudja front, Romanian and Russian forces were assisted by a division of Serbian volunteers, in their fight against Bulgarian and German armies. The volunteers gained a temporary advantage at Bazargic and Cocargea, in Constanţa County. Furthermore, during the retreat of the Allied forces toward the north of Dobrudja, the Serbian volunteers were the fast to cross the Cernavodă Constanţa railroad, where they managed to halt the enemy advance after succeeding to repel the coordinated offensive of three much larger Bulgarian and German divisions. The heroism of the Serbian volunteers stopped the rapid advance of the German and Bulgarian forces toward the Cernavodă-Constanţa railroad, which resulted in the crisis of the 3rd Bulgarian army on three separate occasions. As a resuit, the Romanian Army was rescued from the imminent threat of being surrounded by the enemy in the Wallachian Plain. Amang the 18.000 Serbian volunteers, more than 5000 were from the region of Banat. During the military campaign in Dobrudja, approximately 8500 Serbian volunteers have died for the common (Romanian and Serbian) cause. After the war, in 1926, an obelisk was erected in Medgidia in memory of the heroic contribution of Serbian volunteers that fought for the freedom of the two neighboring nations and historical friends- Romania and Serbia.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Miscellanea
  • Vezi publicația: Studii şi Articole de Istorie: SAI
  • Loc publicare: Bucureşti
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2017
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 84; anul 2017
  • Paginaţia: 254-279
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