1. Ferdinand I of Romania
Păduraru Andrei-Nicolae, MIEADR IEA, Group 8101
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania
Keywords : Ferdinand I, Great Union Day
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Coordinating teacher: Mihai Daniel Frumușelu
REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_R
omania
https://www.borcanulc
ucitate.ro/profil2/regele
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Ferdinand I (24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed “the Unifier”, was King of
Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927.
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.
The outcome of Romania’s war effort was the union of Bessarabia, Bukovina and
Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918. Ferdinand became the ruler of a
greatly enlarged Romanian state in 1918–1920 following the Entente's victory over the
Central Powers, a war between the Kingdom of Romania and the Hungarian Soviet
Republic, and the civil war in Russia. He was crowned King of Romania in a spectacular
ceremony on 15 October 1922 at the courtyard of the newly opened "Coronation
Cathedral" in the historic princely seat of Alba Iulia, in Transylvania.
A new period of Romanian history began on the day of the Union of Transylvania with
Romania (Great Union Day).
,, I was going out of a hell reserved for everyone to
get into one reserved only for me ” - Ferdinand I