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 he or she has been 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	[1]
Battle of Mărășești	World War I	August 6 to September 3, 1917	5,125 killed	Germany Austria-Hungary	[2]
Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)	World War II	October 30, 1941 to July 4, 1942	1,597 killed	Soviet Union	[3]
Battle of the Argeș	World War I	December 1 to 3, 1916	Over 1,000 killed	Germany Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Ottoman Empire	[4]

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	Germany Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Ottoman Empire	[5]
Operation Barbarossa	World War II	June 22 to December 5, 1941	At least 39,000 killed	Soviet Union	[6]
Crimean offensive	World War II	April 8 to May 12, 1944	25,800 killed	Soviet Union	[7]
Operation München (Part of Operation Barbarossa)	World War II	July 2 to 26, 1941	4,112 killed	Soviet Union	[8]
Southern Dobruja Offensive	Second Balkan War	July 10 to 18, 1913	1,600 killed	Bulgaria	[9]

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. Robert A. Forczyk: Sevastopol 1942: von Manstein's triumph. Osprey, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-221-9, auf S. 90.
4. 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.
5. "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
6. 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.
7. Müller, Rolf-Dieter (2005). Der letzte deutsche Krieg, 1939–1945. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. ISBN 3-608-94133-9.
8. Axworthy (1995), p. 47.
9. 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.