Agreements of Craiova
If the restitution of the Transylvania to the Hungary by the Romania were done under the pressure of the Germany, the agreements of Craiova, as for them, were carried out without direct involvement of Berlin. Boris III actually exploited with address the difficult diplomatic situation met by Carol II in order to obtain satisfaction. The Rumanian sovereign sought indeed as well as possible to understand with his Bulgarian neighbor anything to have to yield neither to the Hungary, nor with the Soviet Union which, it, lorgnait on the Bessarabia.
The agreements of Craiova lead finally to a return to the borders of 1912. The southernmost left Dobrudja (or Dobroudja), which had been allotted to Bucharest at the conclusion of the Second Balkan war, is restored with Sofia. The Romania loses a little more than 7.500 km ².
The latter also had to accept an exchange of population: the 80.000 Roumanians inhabitants the area - majority since its fastening with the Romania in 1913 (see the Treated of Bucharest, 1913) - were forced to give up their houses and were moved in the Northern part, whereas 65.000 Bulgarian of the northern part was to leave for the south.
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