The National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement or National Italo-Romanian Fascist Movement (Mişcarea Naţională Fascistă Italo-Română) was a short-lived Fascist

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

 movement active in Romania

Romania

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 during the early 1920s.

The movement was formed in 1921 by Elena Bacaloglu

Elena Bacaloglu

Elena Bacaloglu was a Romanian journalist and supporter of Italian fascism.Bacologlu was known initially for her marriage to Ovid Densusianu as well as her journalism. Later she moved to Italy, marrying a local man, and whilst there became an ardent admirer of fascism...

, a female journalist who had an Italian

Italy

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 husband at the time, and was an acquaintance of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

 (she had been briefly the wife of Ovid Densusianu

Ovid Densusianu

Ovid Densusianu was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist and folklorist. He is known for introducing new trends of European modernism into Romanian literature.He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, and a member of the Romanian Academy....

). The group was based around deliberate mimicry of the ideas of Italian fascism

Italian Fascism

Italian Fascism also known as Fascism with a capital "F" refers to the original fascist ideology in Italy. This ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, the Republican Fascist Party which ruled the Italian...

 and stressed the close ethnic bonds between the Italians

Italian people

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 and the Romanians

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

. The group attracted only around 100 members. It was wound up in 1923, when it merged with the National Romanian Fascia

National Romanian Fascia

The National Romanian Fascia was a small fascist group that was active in Romania for a short time during the 1920s.Led by Titus Vifor, the group emerged from the short-lived National Fascist Party in 1921 and, at its peak, had around 1,500 members...

 to form the National Fascist Movement

National Fascist Movement

The National Fascist Movement was a Romanian political movement formed in 1923 by the merger of the National Romanian Fascia and the National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement....

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