List of wars involving Romania

This is a list of wars fought by Romania since 1859:

The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (1859–1862)

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The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia did not participate in any wars.

Romanian United Principalities (1862–1866)

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The Romanian United Principalities did not participate in any wars.

Principality of Romania (1866–1881)

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Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders
Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome Losses Prince Prime Minister Defense Minister General Chief of Staff
24 April 1877 – 3 March 1878 Romanian War of Independence or Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)   Russian Empire
  Principality of Romania
  Principality of Serbia
  Principality of Montenegro

Co-belligerents
  Bulgarian volunteers
Serb rebels of Bosnia

  Ottoman Empire Victory
  • due to the reestablishment of the Bulgarian state, Ottoman Empire lost its common border with Romania
4,302 dead and missing
3,316 wounded
19,904 sick
Carol I Ion C. Brătianu Alexandru Cernat Gheorghe Slăniceanu
(until Aug. 1877)
Constantin Barozzi
(Aug. – Oct. 1877)
Ştefan Fălcoianu (from Oct. 1877)

Kingdom of Romania (1881–1947)

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Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders
Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome Losses Prince Prime Minister Defense Minister General Chief of Staff
21 February – 5 April 1907 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
  • Uprising peasants
Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
10 dead and 5 wounded (military)

3,000 civilian casualties

Carol I Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino
(until 24 March 1907)
Dimitrie Sturdza
(from 24 March 1907)
Alexandru Averescu Nicolae Tătărăscu
(until 1 April 1907)
Grigore C. Crăiniceanu
(from 1 April 1907)
29 June – 10 August 1913

Romania entered: 10 July 1913

Second Balkan War   Serbia
  Greece
  Romania
  Montenegro

Co-belligerent
  Ottoman Empire

  Bulgaria Victory negligible combat casualties
6,000 dead of disease
Titu Maiorescu Constantin Harjeu Alexandru Averescu
28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918

Romania entered: 27 August 1916


Romania temporary exited: 9 December 1917


Romania re-entered: 10 November 1918

World War I Triple Entente

  France

  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

  Russia (1914–1917)


  Italy (1915–1918)
  Japan
  Romania (1916–1918)
  Serbia
  Belgium
  Greece (1917–1918)
  Portugal (1916–1918)
  Montenegro (1914–1916)
  China (1917–1918)
  Siam (1917–1918)


Co-belligerents

  United States (1917–1918)
Central Powers
  Germany

  Austria-Hungary
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria (1915–1918)


Defeat 535,706 Ferdinand I Ion I. C. Brătianu Constantin Iancovescu Vasile Zottu
(until Oct. 1916)
Dumitru Iliescu
(Oct. – Dec. 1916)
Constantin Prezan
(from Dec. 1916)
Victory Constantin Coandă Eremia Grigorescu Constantin Prezan
1 November 1918 – 17 July 1919

Romania entered: 11 November 1918


Romania exited: 11 June 1919

Polish–Ukrainian War   Poland

  Romania


Only police troops

  Czechoslovakia (1918–1919)

  Hungarian Democratic Republic (1919)
  West Ukrainian People's Republic

  Ukrainian People's Republic


Co-belligerents

  Hutsul Republic (1919)
  Komancza Republic


Active neutrality

  Czechoslovakia (1919)
Victory
negligible Constantin Coandă
(until Nov. 1918)
Ion I. C. Brătianu
(from Nov. 1918)
Eremia Grigorescu
(until Nov. 1918)
Artur Văitoianu
(from Nov. 1918)
15 April – 6 August 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War   Romania

Co-belligerents
  Czechoslovakia
  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

  Hungarian Soviet Republic

Active neutrality
  Soviet Russia

Victory
3,610 dead
11,666 total
Ion I. C. Brătianu Artur Văitoianu
27–28 May 1919 Bender Uprising

Active neutrality
  Soviet Russia

Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
unknown
20–28 October 1920 1920 Romanian General Strike Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
unknown Alexandru Averescu Ioan Rășcanu Constantin Cristescu
15–18 September 1924 Tatarbunary Uprising

Active neutrality
  Soviet Union

Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
3,000 civilian casualties Ion I. C. Brătianu George Mărdărescu Alexandru Lupescu Alexandru Gorski
5–6 August 1929 Lupeni Strike
  • Coal miners
Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
10 soldiers wounded
15 gendarmes wounded

22 miners dead
23 miners gravely wounded
30 miners lightly wounded

Michael I Iuliu Maniu Henry Cihoschi Nicolae Samsonovici
12–16 February 1933 Grivița Strike Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
2 soldiers dead

7 workers dead
20 workers wounded

Carol II Alexandru Vaida-Voevod Nicolae Samsonovici Constantin Lăzărescu
21–23 January 1941 Legionnaires' Rebellion and Bucharest Pogrom Victory
  • Crushing of the rebellion
30 soldiers dead
200–800 legionnaires dead or wounded
125 Jews dead in pogrom
Michael I Ion Antonescu Alexandru Ioaniţiu
1–2 September 1945

Romania entered: 22 June 1941


Romania switched sides: 23 August 1944


Romania exited: 9 May 1945

World War II Axis

  Germany
  Italy (1940–1943)

  Japan


Affiliate states
  Romania (1941–1944)
  Hungary (1941–1945)
  Bulgaria (1941–1944)
  Thailand (1942–1945)


Co-belligerents
  Finland (1941–1944)
  Vichy France (1940–1944)
  Iran (1941)
  Iraq (1941)


Client states


Active neutrality
  Soviet Union (1939–1940)
  Spanish State
  Denmark (1940–1945)
  Monaco

  French Morocco (1940–1942)
Allies

  United States (1941–1945)

  Soviet Union (1941–1945)

  United Kingdom

  France (1939–1940, 1944–1945)
  China


  Poland (1939)
  Denmark (1940)
  Norway (1940)
  Belgium (1940)

  Luxembourg (1940)
  Netherlands (1940)

  Greece (1940–1941)
  Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1941)

  Egypt (1940–1945)


  Nepal
  Cuba (1941–1945)
  Brazil (1942–1945)
  Mexico (1942–1945)
  Ethiopia (1942–1945)
  Portuguese Timor (1942–1945)
  Colombia (1943–1945)


Co-belligerents
  Italy (1943–1945)
  Romania (1944–1945)
  Finland (1944–1945)
  Bulgaria (1944–1945)


  Mongolia (1939)
  Finland (1939–1940)
  Estonia (1940)
  Latvia (1940)
  Lithuania (1940)
  Romania (1940)


Client state
  Tuvan People's Republic (1941–1944)


Supply only
  Bahrain
  Haiti (1941–1945)
  Honduras (1941–1945)
  Dominican Republic (1941–1945)
  Nicaragua (1941–1945)
  Iraq (1942–1945)
  Bolivia (1943–1945)
  Liberia (1944–1945)


Diplomatic only
  Oman
  Panama (1941–1945)
  Costa Rica (1941–1945)
  El Salvador (1941–1945)
  Guatemala (1941–1945)
  Iran (1943–1945)


Governments in exile
  Poland (1939–1945)
  Norway (1940–1945)
  Belgium (1940–1944)
  Free France (1940–1944)
  Luxembourg (1940–1944)
  Netherlands (1940–1945)
  Greece (1941–1944)
  Yugoslavia (1941–1945)
  Czechoslovakia
  Korea


Active neutrality
  Iceland
  French Morocco (1939–1940, 1942–1945)
  Tonga

Defeat 300,000 soldiers dead

64,000 civilians dead


469,000 Jews died in Holocaust

Ion Antonescu
(until Aug. 1944)
Iosif Iacobici
(until Sep. 1942)

Ion Antonescu
(Sep. 1941 – Jan. 1942)

Constantin Pantazi (Jan. 1942 – Aug. 1944)
Alexandru Ioaniţiu
(until Sep. 1941)
Iosif Iacobici
(Sep. 1941 – Jan. 1942)
Ilie Șteflea
(Jan. 1942 – Aug. 1944)

Romanian People's Republic (1947–1965)

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Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders
Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome Losses Prince Prime Minister Defense Minister General Chief of Staff
Summer 1948–1962 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
  • Romanian anti-communists
Defeat
  • Crushing of the rebellion
official number estimates 2000 Constantin Ion Parhon
(until Jun. 1952)
Petru Groza
(Jun. 1952 – Jan. 1958)
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
(Jan. 1958 – Mar. 1961)
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
(from Mar. 1961)
Petru Groza
(until Jun. 1952)
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
(Jun. 1952 – Oct. 1955)
Chivu Stoica
(Oct. 1955 – Mar. 1961)
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
(from Mar. 1961)
Emil Bodnăraș
(until Oct. 1955)
Leontin Sălăjan
(from Oct. 1955)
Constantin Gh. Popescu
(until Mar. 1950)
Leontin Sălăjan
(Mar. 1950 – Apr. 1954)
Ion Tutoveanu
(from Apr. 1954)

Socialist Republic of Romania (1965–1989)

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Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders
Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome Losses Prince Prime Minister Defense Minister General Chief of Staff
15–16 November 1987 Brașov Rebellion
  • Romanian anti-communists
Defeat
  • Crushing of the rebellion
no casualties Nicolae Ceaușescu Constantin Dăscălescu Vasile Milea Ștefan Gușă
16–27 December 1989 Romanian Revolution Victory 1,104 dead

3,352 wounded

Nicolae Ceaușescu
(until 22 Dec. 1989)
Council of the National Salvation Front
(22–26 Dec. 1989)

Ion Iliescu
(from 26 Dec. 1989)
Constantin Dăscălescu
(until 22 Dec. 1989)
Petre Roman
(from 26 Dec. 1989)
Vasile Milea
(until 22 Dec. 1989)
Nicolae Militaru
(from 22 Dec. 1989)

Post-communist Romania (since 1989)

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Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders
Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome Losses Prince Prime Minister Defense Minister General Chief of Staff
March 2003 – 23 July 2009 Iraq War

Iraqi National Congress
  New Iraqi government

  Iraqi Kurdistan

  Ba'athist Iraq
  Ansar al-Islam

Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order


Sunni insurgents


Shia insurgents


For fighting between insurgent groups, see Civil war in Iraq (2006–07).

Victory 3 soldiers killed. Ion Iliescu
(until Dec. 2004)
Traian Băsescu
(from Dec. 2004)
Adrian Năstase
(until Dec. 2004)

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
(Dec. 2004 – Dec. 2008)
Emil Boc
(from Dec. 2008)
Ioan Mircea Pașcu
(until Dec. 2004)
Teodor Atanasiu
(Dec. 2004 – Oct. 2006)
Sorin Frunzăverde
(Oct. 2006 – Apr. 2007)
Teodor Meleșcanu
(Apr. 2007 – Dec. 2008)
Mihai Stănișoară
(from Dec. 2008)
Mihail Eugen Popescu
(until Oct. 2004)
Eugen Bădălan
(Oct. 2004 – Sep. 2006)
Gheorghe Marin
(from. Sep. 2006)
Ștefan Dănilă
(from Jan. 2011)
Nicolae Ciucă
(from Jan. 2015)
Daniel Petrescu
(from Nov. 2019)
7 October 2001 – 16 August 2021 War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Defeat
  • Defeat of the Taliban government in Afghanistan and fall of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
  • Destruction of al-Qaeda camps.
  • Establishment of new Afghan government and creation of the new Afghan National Army.
  • Fall of Kabul.
  • Ongoing Taliban insurgency.
23 soldiers killed. Ion Iliescu
(2001–2004)
Traian Băsescu
(2004–2014)
Klaus Iohannis
(2014–)
Adrian Năstase
(2001–2004)
Călin Popescu Tăriceanu
(2004–2008)
Emil Boc
(2008–2012)
Victor Ponta
(2012–)
Ioan Mircea Pașcu
(2001–2004)
Teodor Atanasiu
(2004–2006)
Sorin Frunzăverde
(2006–2007)
Teodor Meleșcanu
(2007–2008)
Mihai Stănișoară
(2008–2009)
Gabriel Oprea
(2009–2012)
Corneliu Dobrițoiu
(2012)
Mircea Dușa
(2015–)
19 March – 23 October 2011 2011 military intervention in Libya Victory
  • Overthrow of the Gaddafi government.
no casualties.

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