Румын тілдес халқы үшін ұлттық мемлекет

Nation state for all Romanian speakers

The term Greater Romania (România Mare) usually refers to the borders of the Kingdom of Romania in the interwar period, achieved after the Great Union. It also refers to a pan nationalist idea. As a concept, its main goal is the creation of a nation state which would incorporate all Romanian speakers.

The theme of national identity had been always a key concern for Romanian culture and politics. The Romanian national ideology in the first decades of the twentieth century was a typical example of ethnocentric nationalism. The Romanian territorial claims were based on "primordial racial modalities", the essential goal of them was to unify the biologically defined Romanians. The nation building based on the French model of a unitary nation state became an all time priority especially in the interwar and the Communist periods. The Romanian revolution in 1848 already carried the seeds of the national dream of a unified and united Romania, The concept owes its life to Dimitrie Brătianu, who introduced the term "Greater Romania" in 1852. which became known as Romania since the 1866 Constitution and turned into a Kingdom in 1881, after gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. However, before the Austro Hungarian Compromise, the elite of the Transylvanian Romanians did not support the concept of "Greater Romania", instead they wanted only equality with the other nations in Transylvania. The concept became a political reality when, in 1881, the Romanian National Party of Transylvania gathered Romanians on a common political platform to fight together for Transylvania's autonomy. World War I played a crucial part in the development of Romanian national consciousness.