FOOD IN WAR TIME TRANSYLVANIA IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

This study aims to reveal a piece of alimentation's history: the famine during the war in Transylvania, and is based upon sources like: diaries, literature, memories and press. As hypothesis, the authors have started this research considering the common knowledge that any war implies famine for the territories affected and the sources consulted confirmed that. Transylvania faced famine during the war, and the military it wasn't only component of the society affected by it, civilians also suffered deprivations. When famine stroked, soldiers robbed farms to temper the hunger, ate cereals harvest from the field or simply starved. The aliments sold on the black market were expensive and even dangerous so survival was to be seen only in peace making. The sources described a society deprived of food. Even if they can't equalize Civilians' lack of resources with the famine of the soldiers, it's safe to say that Transylvanian territory faced famine during the first world war.