Treceți, batalioane române, Carpații (English: Cross, Romanian battalions, the Carpathians) is a Romanian patriotic song. It is thought to have been composed in 1916, shortly before Romania's entry into World War I, although its first historical apparition occurred in February 1919, when members of the Romanian Legion of Transylvanian–Bukovinian Volunteers were recorded singing a version of the song. The original version (with 3 stanzas) is about how Romanian soldiers say goodbye to their families and go to Transylvania to fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the unification of the region with the Kingdom of Romania. The song was later "revived" during the communist regime, in the 1970s and 1980s, when Adrian Păunescu and other poets added more stanzas and made the song part of th