Battle of Ciucea

The Battle of Ciucea from January 16–29, 1919 represented a military combat action of tactical level that opposed in the geographical area between the localities of Ciucea and Huedin located in Cluj county, Hungarian troops from the Romanian "Secuian Division". The course of hostilities was circumscribed military operations for the defense of the Great Union (1918-1920), the action taking place during the Operation of the Romanian Army to occupy the line of demarcation from Transylvania (1918) of the period of occupation of the Line of demarcation in Transylvania (1918-1919) of the third alignment of the line of demarcation in Transylvania. The actions carried out on this occasion contributed to the establishment of the military demarcation alignment in the Bihor mountains.

The subject of the confrontation was the control of the access road to the Ciucea pass, one of the major passes through which access to Transylvania was achieved. Having retreated from the area of Cluj, the "21st Honvezi Infantry Regiment" acted actively in defense, in accordance with the meaning of the change of view of the Hungarian political and military administration which was now willing to take military measures, taken with the purpose of gaining time.

Fixing the Hungarian troops in defense at Ciucea allowed them, later, to have serious engineering works in the area in front of the Romanian Army Offensive of April 1919