This is a list of wars fought by Romania since the consolidation of the Romanian principality in 1866:
Principality of Romania (1866–1881)
Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome LossesPrincePrime MinisterDefense MinisterGeneral Chief of Staff24 April 1877 – 3 March 1878Romanian War of Independence or Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) Principality of Romania Principality of Serbia
Co-belligerents Bulgarian volunteersSerb rebels of BosniaVictory Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin Independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro from Ottoman Empire Northern Dobruja passed from Ottoman Empire to Romania Southern Bessarabia passed from Romania to Russian Empire
due to the reestablishment of the Bulgarian state, Ottoman Empire lost its common border with Romania4,302 dead and missing3,316 wounded19,904 sickCarol IIon C. BrătianuAlexandru CernatGheorghe Slăniceanu (until Aug. 1877)Constantin Barozzi (Aug. – Oct. 1877)Ştefan Fălcoianu (from Oct. 1877)
Kingdom of Romania (1881–1947) Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome LossesPrincePrime MinisterDefense MinisterGeneral Chief of Staff21 February – 5 April 19071907 Romanian Peasants' RevoltRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieUprising peasantsVictory Crushing of the rebellion10 dead and 5 wounded (military)
3,000 civilian casualtiesCarol IGheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (until 24 March 1907)Dimitrie Sturdza(from 24 March 1907)Alexandru AverescuNicolae Tătărăscu (until 1 April 1907)Grigore C. Crăiniceanu (from 1 April 1907)29 June – 10 August 1913
Romania entered: 10 July 1913Second Balkan WarCo-belligerentVictory Treaty of Bucharest Romania gained Southern Dobrujanegligible combat casualties6,000 dead of diseaseTitu MaiorescuConstantin HarjeuAlexandru Averescu28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
Romania entered: 27 August 1916
Romania temporary exited: 9 December 1917
Romania re-entered: 10 November 1918 World War ITriple Entente France
Russia (1914–1917)
Italy (1915–1918) Japan (1916–1918)
(1917–1918) Portugal (1916–1918) (1914–1916) China (1917–1918) Siam (1917–1918)
Co-belligerents United States (1917–1918) Central Powers
(1915–1918)Defeat Armistice of Focșani Treaty of Buftea Bulgaria recovered Southern Dobruja and gained the southern part of Northern Dobruja The northern part of Northern Dobruja was placed under the joint control of the Central Powers Austria-Hungary gained the passes of the Carpathian Mountains Romania leased its oil wells to Germany for 90 years. The Central Powers recognized the Union of Bessarabia with Romania535,706Ferdinand IIon I. C. BrătianuConstantin IancovescuVasile Zottu(until Oct. 1916)Dumitru Iliescu(Oct. – Dec. 1916)Constantin Prezan(from Dec. 1916)Victory Armistice of 11 November 1918 Treaty of Versailles Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine Treaty of Trianon anullement of the Treaty of Buftea Creation of Greater RomaniaConstantin CoandăEremia GrigorescuConstantin Prezan1 November 1918 – 17 July 1919
Romania entered: 11 November 1918
Romania exited: 11 June 1919Polish–Ukrainian War West Ukrainian People's RepublicVictory Romania secured Northern Bukovina Temporary Romanian occupation of PokuttyanegligibleConstantin Coandă(until Nov. 1918)Ion I. C. Brătianu(from Nov. 1918)Eremia Grigorescu(until Nov. 1918)Artur Văitoianu(from Nov. 1918) 7 January – 1 February 1919Khotyn UprisingRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieUkrainian and Moldovan insurgents
Ukrainian People's RepublicVictory Crushing of the rebellionup to 15,000 deaths Ion I. C. BrătianuArtur Văitoianu15 April – 6 August 1919Hungarian–Romanian WarCo-belligerents CzechoslovakiaActive neutrality Soviet RussiaVictory Romania secured Transylvania Collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic3,610 dead11,666 total27–28 May 1919Bender UprisingRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieBolsheviks
Active neutrality Soviet RussiaVictory Crushing of the rebellionunknown20–28 October 19201920 Romanian General StrikeRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieBolsheviksVictory Crushing of the rebellionunknownAlexandru AverescuIoan RășcanuConstantin Cristescu15–18 September 1924Tatarbunary UprisingRomanian Land Forces Romanian Gendarmerie Romanian Naval ForcesBolsheviks
Active neutralityVictory Crushing of the rebellion3,000 civilian casualtiesIon I. C. BrătianuGeorge MărdărescuAlexandru LupescuAlexandru Gorski5–6 August 1929Lupeni StrikeRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieCoal minersVictory Crushing of the rebellion10 soldiers wounded15 gendarmes wounded
22 miners dead23 miners gravely wounded30 miners lightly woundedMichael IIuliu ManiuHenry CihoschiNicolae Samsonovici12–16 February 1933Grivița StrikeRomanian Land Forces Romanian GendarmerieCommunistsVictory Crushing of the rebellion2 soldiers dead
7 workers dead20 workers woundedCarol IIAlexandru Vaida-VoevodNicolae SamsonoviciConstantin Lăzărescu21–23 January 1941Legionnaires' Rebellion and Bucharest PogromRomanian Land Forces Romanian Police Iron Guard Romanian PoliceVictory Crushing of the rebellion30 soldiers dead 200–800 legionnaires dead or wounded 125 Jews dead in pogromMichael IIon AntonescuAlexandru Ioaniţiu1–2 September 1945
Romania entered: 22 June 1941
Romania switched sides: 23 August 1944
Romania exited: 9 May 1945World War IIAxis
(1940–1943) Italian North Africa (1943) (until 1941)
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Co-belligerents (1941–1944) (1940–1944) Iran (1941) (1941)Allies (1941–1945) (1941) (1941–1945) Ukrainian SSR (1941, 1943–1945) Byelorussian SSR (1941, 1943–1945)
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Cuba (1941–1945) Brazil (1942–1945) (1942–1945) (1942–1945) (1942–1945) (1943–1945)
Co-belligerents (1943–1945) (1944–1945) (1944–1945) Bulgaria (1944–1945)
Mongolia (1939) (1939–1940) (1940) (1940) (1940) (1940)
Client state (1941–1944)
Supply only Bahrain (1941–1945) (1941–1945) (1941–1945) (1941–1945) (1942–1945) (1943–1945) (1944–1945)
Diplomatic only Oman (1941–1945) (1941–1945) (1941–1945) (1941–1945) Iran (1943–1945)
Governments in exile Poland (1939–1945) Norway (1940–1945) Belgium (1940–1944) (1940–1944) Luxembourg (1940–1944) Netherlands (1940–1945) Greece (1941–1944) Yugoslavia (1941–1945) Czechoslovakia Korea
Active neutrality
French Morocco (1939–1940, 1942–1945)Defeat King Michael's Coup Soviet occupation of Romania Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 Romania lost again Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, to USSR, back to the border of 1940 Second Vienna Award was annulled (Romania re-gained control of Northern Transylvania, lost to Hungary in 1940) Bulgaria kept control of Southern Dobruja, as of 1940 Communist regime installed in Romania300,000 soldiers dead
64,000 civilians dead
469,000 Jews died in HolocaustIon 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)
Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome LossesPrincePrime MinisterDefense MinisterGeneral Chief of Staff1944–1962Romanian anti-communist resistance movement (until 1947) (from 1947) PCR Securitate Supported by: Anti-communist groups Nationalists Monarchists National Peasantists Iron Guards Supported by: CNRRomanian government victory Insurgency suppressed official number estimates 2000Constantin 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)
Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome LossesPrincePrime MinisterDefense MinisterGeneral Chief of Staff15–16 November 1987Brașov RebellionDirectorate for Security Troops Romanian Land Forces Romanian PoliceRomanian anti-communistsDefeat Crushing of the rebellionno casualtiesNicolae CeaușescuConstantin DăscălescuVasile MileaȘtefan Gușă16–30 December 1989Romanian Revolution Government Securitate (until 22 December 1989) Communist Party loyalists Army of the Socialist Republic of Romania (until 22 December 1989) Revolutionaries Anti-communists Communist Party dissidents After 22 December 1989: National Salvation Front Romanian Armed ForcesRevolutionary victory End of Communist regime in Romania Execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu1,104 dead
3,352 woundedNicolae 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)
Conflict Belligerents Result Romanian commanders Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome LossesPrincePrime MinisterDefense MinisterGeneral Chief of StaffMarch 2003 – 23 July 2009Iraq WarIraqi National Congress New Iraqi government Iraqi Armed Forces Awakening Council
Peshmerga Ba'athist Iraq Ansar al-Islam
Supreme Command for Jihad and LiberationArmy of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
Sunni insurgents Islamic State of Iraq Islamic Army of Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah
Shia insurgents Mahdi Army Special Groups Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Others
For fighting between insurgent groups, see Civil war in Iraq (2006–07).Victory Invasion and occupation of Iraq Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war Subsequent depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, improvements in public security, Iraqi insurgency persists Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War Resurgence of Islamic State of Iraq, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq3 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 2021War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)ISAF RSTaliban Al-QaedaDefeat 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 20112011 military intervention in LibyaNATO Jordan Qatar