Radio Romania International
All things considered, the foundation of Romania, as it is today, was laid in early 1859. Specifically, that meant the twofold election of colonel Alexandru Ioan Cuza, on January 5th and 24th, as the ruling prince of Moldavia and Wallachia, in then the capital of the two Romanian Principalities. The person of a single ruling prince was the epitome of a tremendous amount of effort the elites had made, for two generations, in a bid to build a Romanian state following the modern European model. We have made an attempt to reminisce the key moments of that age at national but also at internationa...
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