Great Britain and the Romanian territorial concessions in Dobrogea and Transylvania (1940)

Abstract

This study explores, based on Romanian and British diplomatic sources, some aspects of the international context in which Romania ceded to Hungary part of the historical region of Transylvania, and to Bulgaria - part of the historical region of Dobrogea. The British perspective on the Romanian-German, Romanian-Soviet, Romanian-Hungarian, and Romanian-Bulgarian relations was analyzed in the context of those territorial concessions, as well as the way in which this perspective, in turn, was influenced by the evolution of Romanian-British and Soviet-British relations in the context of British war policy - in general, and in south-eastern Europe - in particular.