Sorin Antohi
Panel 1 Greater Romania
Abstract
Greater Romania, largely an unintended consequence of WWI, could hardly be greater indeed. Only a French general had the vision of a larger new Romania, stretching all the way to the Adriatic and thus including some of those Balkan lands and populations Romanian scholars cannot really place on their (mental) maps.The bad news was, Greater Romania consisted, even more than the Old Kingdom, of an ethnic, linguistic, confessional, local/regional, and symbolic geographical mix that could not be straitjacketed into the brand new frame of a fledgling nation-state.
