List of battles with most Romanian military fatalities

This article contains a list of battles and military campaigns with most Romanian military deaths.

Introduction

This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of Romanian military fatalities exceed 1,000. The term casualty in warfare refers to a soldier who is no longer fit to fight after being in combat. Casualties can include killed, wounded, missing, captured or deserted.

Battles

Battle or siege Conflict Date Estimated number killed Opposing force References
Siege of Odessa World War II August 8 to October 16, 1941 17,729 killed Soviet Union Soviet Union [1]
Battle of Mărășești World War I August 6 to September 3, 1917 5,125 killed German Empire Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary 		[2]
Battle of Mirăslău Long Turkish War September 18, 1600 Over 5,000 killed Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire [3]
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) World War II October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942 1,597 killed Soviet Union Soviet Union [4]
Battle of the Argeș World War I December 1 to 3, 1916 Over 1,000 killed German Empire Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946) Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire 		[5]
Battle of Finta War for the succession to the throne of Moldavia May 27, 1653 1,000 killed Moldavia Moldavia
Cossack Hetmanate Cossack Hetmanate
Crimean Khanate
German and Austrian mercenaries 		[6]

Campaigns

Campaign Conflict Date Estimated number killed Opposing force References
Romanian Campaign World War I August 27, 1916 to December 1917 (first phase)
November 10 to 11, 1918 (second phase) 		335,706 killed German Empire Germany
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary
Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946) Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire 		[7]
Operation Barbarossa World War II June 22 to December 5, 1941 At least 39,000 killed Soviet Union Soviet Union [8]
Crimean offensive World War II April 8 to May 12, 1944 25,800 killed Soviet Union Soviet Union [9]
Operation München (Part of Operation Barbarossa) World War II July 2 to 26, 1941 4,112 killed Soviet Union Soviet Union [10]
Southern Dobruja Offensive Second Balkan War July 10 to 18, 1913 1,600 killed Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946) Bulgaria [11]

References

  1. ^ Axworthy, Mark. Third Axis Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. p. 58.
  2. ^ Bătălia de la Mărăşeşti, pe unde nu se trece Archived 27 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian)
  3. ^ Veress, Emőd (2023-04-13). Constitutional History of Transylvania. Springer Nature. p. 198. ISBN 978-3-031-22166-8.
  4. ^ Robert A. Forczyk: Sevastopol 1942: von Manstein's triumph. Osprey, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-221-9, auf S. 90.
  5. ^ Torrey, Glenn (2011). The Romanian Battlefront in World War I. Kansas: University Press of Kansas. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-7006-2058-6. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  6. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2023-12-29). Women Warriors in History: 1,622 Biographies Worldwide from the Bronze Age to the Present. McFarland. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-4766-9305-7.
  7. ^ "Military Casualties-World War-Estimated", Statistics Branch, GS, War Department, 25 February 1924; cited in World War I: People, Politics, and Power, published by Britannica Educational Publishing (2010), p. 219
  8. ^ Axworthy, Mark (1995). Third Axis Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-267-7.
  9. ^ Müller, Rolf-Dieter (2005). Der letzte deutsche Krieg, 1939–1945. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. ISBN 3-608-94133-9.
  10. ^ Axworthy (1995), p. 47.
  11. ^ Ciupală, Alin (25 May 2020). "Epidemiile în istorie | O epidemie uitată. Holera, România și al Doilea Război Balcanic din 1913" (in Romanian). University of Bucharest.
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