Ferdinand I was King of Romania from 1914 to 1927. He was born in Germany but succeeded his uncle as King of Romania in 1914. Though from a German royal family, Ferdinand led Romania into World War I on the side of the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Ferdinand oversaw Romania's greatest period of development with a strong agriculture industry and economy. He died in 1927 after a reign that saw Romania achieve its national unification.

1. 100YEARS AFTERTHE GREAT UNION
FERDINAND I OF ROMANIA
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest
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2. Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24
August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed Întregitorul
("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 10
October 1914 until his death in 1927
Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany,
the Roman Catholic Prince Ferdinand Viktor Albert
Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The name
was later shortened simply to Hohenzollern after the
extinction of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen branch in
1869. The princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen had
ruled the principality until 1850, when it was
annexed to Prussia.
Ferdinand I was the son of Leopold, Prince of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Infanta Antónia of
Portugal (1845–1913), daughter of Queen Maria II of
Portugal and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, heir to the Slovakian-originated Hungarian
magnates of Kohary on his mother's side.

3. King of Romania
Ferdinand succeeded his uncle on the latter's death (Carol I died
without surviving issue) as King of Romania on 10 October 1914,
reigning until his own death on 20 July 1927.
He was the 1,174th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in
Austria in 1909 and the 868th Knight of the Order of the Garter in
1924.

4. World War I
Though a member of a cadet branch of Germany's ruling Hohenzollern imperial
family, Ferdinand presided over his country's entry into World War I on the side of
the Triple Entente powers against the Central Powers on 27 August 1916. Thus he
gained the nickname the Loyal, respecting his oath when sworn in before the
Romanian Parliament in 1914: "I will reign as a good Romanian.„
As a consequence of this "betrayal" toward his German roots, Kaiser Wilhelm II had
Ferdinand's name erased from the Hohenzollern House register.
Despite the setbacks after the entry into war, when Dobruja and Wallachia were
occupied by the Central Powers, Romania fought in 1917 and stopped the German
advance into Moldavia. When the Bolsheviks sued for peace in 1918, Romania was
surrounded by the Central Powers and forced to conclude the Treaty of Bucharest,
1918. However, Ferdinand refused to sign the treaty. When the Allied forces
advanced on the Thessaloniki front, they knocked Bulgaria out of the war, and
Ferdinand ordered the re-mobilization of the Romanian Army. Romania re-entered
the war on the side of the Triple Entente.

5. THE UNION
King Ferdinand I is one of the
most important crowned heads on the
throne of the Kingdom of Romania. His
personality is closely related to the time
of the Great Union, as well as to the
finalization of that Great Romania in
which we all dream and which we
remember with emotion. A man of a
vast culture, polyglot and passionate
botanist, King Ferdinand was sincerely
dedicated to the Romanians, under his
rule being the most flourishing period of
the modern Romanian state. The
following lines give data less known by
most people, present the man behind
the great decisions taken and under
which the great national ideal has been
fulfilled.

6. Death
At the age of 62, after a reign over thirteen years tumultuous for the
history of Romania, Ferdinand dies after a colon cancer, being buried at
Curtea de Arges with King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth. During the sale of the
prince, Romania has reached a unique level of development until then.
Agriculture was a force, our country being called the "European grain". Trade
is developing together with the exploitation of oil fields, the country's
economy being among the strongest and most stable in the whole world. It
all happened under the rule of a kingdom that, between the personal
problems and the wars that have ravaged the country, has found time to
devote itself to science and knowledge, being president and protector of the
Romanian Academy from 1914 until its passing to eternity. He was the only
care monarch who had the happiness to reign over a large country, dreamed
of by his predecessors, and to be called the "king of all Romanians."

7. WEBOGRAPHY
• https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/ferdinand-i-omul-
din-spatele-marii-uniri
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Romania