The Transylvanian War is an ongoing conflict in eastern Hungary, ongoing since early 2014 after the dissolution of Danubia. The conflict involves Hungary and Transylvanian separatists, supported by neighboring Rumania. The war began with uprisings in ethnically Rumanian areas of Transylvania in March of 2014 as the European Spring spread across the Versailles Pact, with protests both in favor of political reforms and, later on, separation from Hungary into either a Transylvanian state or unification with Rumania. Local ethnic Hungarians reacted violently, the Honved Magyary was dispatched to respond and the Rumanian Army invaded Transylvania days later under the claim that it had a duty to defend its ethnic countrymen. The war is regarded as the bloodiest of the European Wars that unfolded since the collapse of the Versailles Pact in the summer of 2013; marked by ethnic cleansing and targeted pogroms, as many as 200,000 people have died and nearly a million been displaced. The conflict entered a less active state with the repulsion of Rumanian forces from most of Transylvania in 2016 and subsequent collapse of the Rumanian government but since then paramilitary violence and limited insurgencies, as well as clandestine operations by both sides, have continued.
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