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208: 196: 122: 184: 134: 44: 165: 154: 108: 791:, the Romanian High Command ordered a halt to the Transylvania offensive. Also on 8 September, the XXXIX Corps of German General Hermann von Staabs assumed responsibility for operations in southern Transylvania. One of the units placed under the command of von Staabs was the 51st Honvéd Division. The battle was resumed on 10 September. That same day, the Romanian 1st Army entered Sellenberk. 889:
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was the designated assembly area for the 1st Army's Olt-Lotru Group. Opposing the Romanian invasion of Transylvania was the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army under the command of General
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The Romanian forces in the region consisted of the 1st Army's Olt-Lotru Group (2 divisions), which was placed by General Culcer under the command of General
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Austria. Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung, Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen, 1930,
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On 27 August 1916, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary and proceeded to invade the Hungarian region of
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The Romanian front north of the Red Tower Pass in mid-September, after the capture of Sellenberk
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the Hungarians in 1599 — became the center of the main Romanian position north of the
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Cornélis De Witt Willcox, Edwin Roy Stuart, Cumulative Digest Corporation, 1918,
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forces (Austria-Hungary and Germany) on the other side. It was part of the wider
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William Dunseath Eaton, Harry C. Read, Leonard Wood, C. Thomas Company, 1919,
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referred to this in his memoirs, stating that, after taking Brassó (
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military engagement fought between Romanian forces on one side and
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On 10 September, the Romanian 1st Army captured Sellenberk (
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Index

Battle of Transylvania
Romanian Campaign
World War I

Transylvania
Șelimbăr
Sibiu County
Romania
Austria-Hungary
German Empire
Kingdom of Romania
Ioan Culcer
Kingdom of Romania
Constantin Manolescu
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German Empire
Hermann von Staabs
Austria-Hungary
Arthur Arz von Straussenburg
Austria-Hungary
Béla Tanárky
ro
1st Army
1st Army
XXXIX Reserve Corps
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Romanian Campaign
1916 Campaign

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