La construction de l’espace roumain dans la géographie militaire française

Abstract

How do French military geographers envisage Romanian space between the 1870s and the early 1920s? This article aims to understand this strategic approach to Romanian space through geography. As a result, French military geographers present it as a pivot zone on the south-eastern flank of Europe. Before 1914, Romania was seen as a barrier between the great empires, a sort of inescapable strategic space between East and West. When the country joined the Transylvanian Plateau after the war, the country continued to be appreciated as a major pivot area with the central Bucharest reduction.

Keywords

• Military geography
• central area of Bucharest
• geostrategy
• Romania