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The King of Romania or King of the Romanians was the title of the monarch of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947, when the Romanian Workers' Party proclaimed the Romanian People's Republic fol
Carol I, the first King of Romania (portrait by George Healy, 1881)
Carol I King of Romania
King Ferdinand of Romania
Michael I of Romania
Carol I of Romania
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Carol I or Charles I of Romania, nicknamed the King of Independence; was the monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince from 1866 to 1881, and as King from 1881 to 1914. He wa
King of Romania
…parties, after which parliament offered the throne to Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen who subsequently became the new "Domnitor of Romania" (as Carol I). Romania's independence from the Ottoman Empire was recognized in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin. In an expression of full sovereignty, the principality…
Carol I, c. 1905–14
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, aged 6
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen c. 1860.
Prince Charles's predecessor as Domnitor of the United Principalities, Alexandru Ioan Cuza.