Romania led by Ion Antonescu is a custom civilization by JFD, with contributions from DarthKyofu, RawSasquatch, and Zharques.
This mod requires Brave New World. It replaces the City-State of Bucharest with Karvuna.
Overview[]
Romania[]
The territory of Romania has been inhabited by different groups of people since prehistory. In 2002, the oldest modern human (Homo sapiens) remains in Europe, were discovered in a cave near Anina, Romania. Nicknamed "John of Anina," his remains (the lower jaw) are approximately 42,000 years old.
Ion Antonescu[]
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducator during most of World War II. Having been responsible for facilitating the Holocaust in Romania, he was overthrown in 1944, before being tried for war crimes and executed two years later in 1946.
A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with far-right and fascist politics. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defence Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga as well as the subsequent First Cristea cabinet, in which he also served as Air and Marine Minister. During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment. Antonescu rose to political prominence during the political crisis of 1940, and established the National Legionary State, an uneasy partnership with Horia Sima of the Iron Guard. After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany, he eliminated the Guard during the Legionary Rebellion of 1941. In addition to being Prime Minister, he served as his own Foreign Minister and Defence Minister. Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania.
An atypical figure among Holocaust perpetrators, Antonescu enforced policies independently responsible for the deaths of as many as 400,000 people, most of them Bessarabian, Ukrainian and Romanian Jews, as well as Romanian Romani. The regime's complicity in the Holocaust combined pogroms and mass murders such as the Odessa massacre with ethnic cleansing, and systematic deportations to occupied Transnistria. The system in place was nevertheless characterized by singular inconsistencies, prioritizing plunder over killing, showing leniency toward most Jews in the Old Kingdom, and ultimately refusing to adopt the Final Solution. This was made possible by the fact that Romania, as a junior ally of Nazi Germany, was not occupied by the Wehrmacht and preserved a degree of political autonomy.
Aerial attacks on Romania by the Allies in 1944 and heavy casualties on the Eastern Front prompted Antonescu to open peace negotiations with the Allies, which were inconclusive. On 23 August 1944, King Michael I led a coup d'état against Antonescu, who was arrested; after the war he was convicted of war crimes, and executed in June 1946. His involvement in the Holocaust was officially reasserted and condemned following the 2003 Wiesel Commission report.
Dawn of Man[]
Art by RawSasquatch
The strength of Romania is yours, O' Conducator Ion Antonescu. Left isolated by your allies in France and Britain following the end of World War I, your leadership over Romania would be one concentrated on ensuring Romania's autonomy in the emerging Europe. But where at first you feared for Romania's subjugation to the rising forces of Nazi Germany, your sympathy to Hitler's ideology - even if unevenly enforced - and your pursuit of a purged Romania would ultimately lead to your downfall.
Conducator, the spectre of Romania's greatness has come to haunt your vision once more. Can you purge these ancestral lands from the impurity that tarnish it? Can you ensure the independence of her people from foreign forces? Can you build a civilization that can stand the test of time?
Introduction: I am Ion Antonescu, Conducator of the Greater Romanian state. Soon we shall see what filth you harbor in your so-called empire.
Defeat: I should have disposed of the lot of you while I had the chance
Unique Attributes[]
Romania (Ion Antonescu)
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 Art by JFD |
From Timok to Salonika Adopting Social Policies or Ideological Tenets transfers stored |
  Art by RawSasquatch |
IAR 80 (Fighter)
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  Art by RawSasquatch |
Vânatori de Munte (Marine)
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City List
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Spy List
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Music[]
Mod Support[]
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Additional Achievements
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Ethnic Units/R.E.D.
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Map Labels
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Unique Cultural Influence
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YnAEMP
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Additional Achievements[]
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Just A Bit of Ionolatry Won't Hurt | Beat the game on any difficulty setting as Romania under Ion Antonescu. |
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A Government of Generals | As Romania under Ion Antonescu, have a Great General stationed in all cities and at least 5 |
Full Credits List[]
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| Latest Version: | v 1 |
| Last Updated: | October 2025 |
- JFD: Author.
- DarthKyofu: Artwork (Civilization Icon)
- RawSasquatch: Artwork
| Dark Days Collection [edit] | |
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