The unification of Moldova and Romania is the idea that Moldova and Romania should become a single sovereign state and the political movement which seeks to bring it about. Beginning during the Revolu
Moldavia and the modern boundaries
Celebration of the Romanian language, Chișinău, 31 August 1989 or 1990
Opposition demonstration in Chișinău in January 2002. The text on the inscription reads "Romanian people–Romanian language".
Graffiti with shapes of Greater Romania near Briceni, Moldova. The portrait is of Stephen the Great, a national hero in both countries.
Greater Romania was the Kingdom of Romania during the interwar period, within its borders achieved after the Great Union; or the related pan-nationalist ideal of a nation state which would incorporate
Unification of Moldova and Romania
…Union), the movement's basis is in the cultural similarity of the two countries, both being Romanian-speaking, and their history of unity as part of Greater Romania. The question of reunification is recurrent in the public sphere of the two countries, often as a speculation, both as a goal and a danger. Though…
Sticker in Bucharest, near the Palace of the Parliament, with the following text: "Chernivtsi. 1940. We will not forget", as a reference to the 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Ion I. C. Brătianu, many times prime minister and the main figure of the National Liberal Party (PNL), controlled postwar Romanian politics until his death in 1927, thanks in part to his influence with King Ferdinand I. Shortly after his death, the PNL entered into crisis.
Carol II, monarch during the 1930s and the main political figure of the period. He controlled the country's internal policy almost from his return to the country in 1930 and foreign policy from 1936, after the replacement of the pro-Allied foreign minister Nicolae Titulescu. His attempt to maintain a position of balance among the great powers failed.