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railway system. Thus, it was also the scene of the first
Central Powers counterattack, on 8 September. Despite the arrival of German reinforcements — all of the 187th Regiment of the 187th Division, minus the regiment's III Battalion — the Austro-Hungarian commander "inexplicably" ordered
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Romanian forces in the area had been severely reduced. At the beginning of September, the Romanian units in the area comprised the bulk of General Culcer's 1st Army: the 2nd, 11th and 12th Divisions. However, following the Romanian
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Romanians had little difficulty repulsing this first Central Powers counterattack against their invasion of Austro-Hungarian Transylvania. The Germans and Austro-Hungarians subsequently returned in good order to Puj (
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The area around
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