Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Alexandru Ioan Cuza (or Alexandru Ioan I, born on 20 March 1820 Barlad, Moldova, Romania and died today at May 15, 1873, Heidelberg, Germany) was the first ruler of the United Principalities of Romania

national state. He actively participated in the revolutionary movement of 1848 in Moldova and the fight for unification of the Principalities. On January 5, 1859, Cuza was elected prince of Moldavia, and on 24 January 1859 and the Romanian Country, by carrying out this connects the two principalities. Become ruler, Cuza led an intense political activity and diplomatic recognition unification of Moldova and the Romanian Country by the suzerain and the guarantor powers and then to complete the unification of the Romanian Principalities via accomplishment unit constitutional and administrative, completed in January 1862 when Moldova Country Romanian and formed a unitary state, officially adopting, in 1862, forming the name of Romania and the Romanian modern state with its capital in Bucharest, with one addition and one government. Cuza was forced to abdicate in 1866 by a broad coalition of parties that time, called monstrous Coalition because of different political orientations of its members, who reacted against such manifestations of authoritarian prince.