His efforts collapsed months later but fired the imagination of Romanian nationalists ever after.
The fighting was the most serious between Romanian nationalists and one of the country's 14 ethnic minorities since World War II.
Its existence was first proposed in the late 19th century by Romanian nationalists, but has been completely rejected by mainstream modern scholarship.
Both pacts have elicited cries of protest from Romanian nationalists, but both have solid mainstream support.
Last week, Russian nationalists and Romanian nationalists were fighting about the future of Moldavia.
These theories are often used to back competing claims by Hungarian and Romanian nationalists.
To Romanian Romantic nationalists, he was regarded as one of Romania's greatest national heroes.
The other theory, supported by Romanian nationalists, is that a Daco-Romanian continuity originated from the Roman conquest of Dacia in 106.
It is noteworthy that Romanian nationalists touring the Greek Vlach villages were invariably struck by the locals' lack of interest in the Romanian cause.
Even this was viewed with suspicion by radical Romanian nationalists.