A quarter of Romanias territory has been placed under code red alert for extreme heat until Saturday night
On the 27th of August 1916, Romania entered WWI on the side of the Entente, after two years of neutrality.
he Romanians living outside the country fought four years in the Great War. Citizens of Austria-Hungary, Russia or the Balkan countries, Romanians had been drafted in the armed forces of the combating countries in the very first days of the conflict
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In 2014, Europe celebrated the centennial of the start of WWI, an event that deeply scarred the 20th century.
