Battle of Carei

Battle of Carei
	Part of Battle of Romania, World War II
	; Monument of the Romanian Soldier in Carei
Date	October 21–25, 1944
Location	Nagykároly, Szatmár County, Hungary, (now Carei, in Satu Mare County, Romania)47°41′2″N 22°28′1″E / 47.68389°N 22.46694°E
Result	Romanian victory; De facto abrogation of the Second Vienna Award
Belligerents
Romania; Soviet Union	Hungary; Germany
Commanders and leaders
Gheorghe Avramescu	Jenő Major
Units involved
4th Army; 40th Army; Gendarmerie	2nd Army

The Battle of Carei was the last stage of recovering Romania's former territory of Northern Transylvania, ceded in 1940 to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award. The battle occurred towards the end of World War II, in the wider context of the Battle of Romania and the Battle of Debrecen. On October 25, 1944, the cities of Carei and Satu Mare were freed from Hungarian and German control. By a decree from 1959, this day was established as the Romanian Armed Forces Day.