His successor, Ferdinand, lead Romania into the war instead, siding with the victorious Triple Entente due to influence from his British wife and willingness to listen to public opinion. A few months later, Carol died, ending a 48-year-long reign. The council, concerned about public opinion, instead opted for neutrality, blocking Carol’s demands. Shortly after the outbreak of World War One, Carol told his council about the treaty with the Triple Alliance, arguing that it would be right and honorable to side with Germany. Carol had sided with the Triple Alliance in private, but the population’s overwhelming desire to side with the French lead to him keeping it secret. Towards the end of his reign, Carol was forced to side with one of the two growing alliances in Europe, the Triple Entente or the Triple Alliance - he chose the latter, mostly due to his German routes and family ties with Kaiser Wilhelm. However, Carol was held high in regard by Romanians after gaining land in the Russo-Turkish War, in which Romania reestablished its sovereignty.
Carol also failed to address the vast poverty going on in many areas of Romania, given that most of the committees that he had for addressing the problem were made up of landlords who could care less about the problems of the poor. This proved popular with Romanians, leading to the start of Carol’s reign that would last nearly half a century.ĭespite being generally regarded as a benevolent king, Carol’s own wife regarded him as a cold person, and said that he wore his crown in his sleep. Enshrined in this document was the idea that the king reigned, and did not rule. Very quickly, a new constitution for Romania was created, regarded as one of the most liberal and advanced of its time, modeled after the Belgian constitution thirty years earlier. While he was getting crowned, Karl took an oath in French, as he was unable to speak Romanian - however, he opted to use the Romanian form of his name, Carol. After a long journey across Central Europe, he arrived in Bucharest on 10th of May 1866.
However, due to the recent conflict between Prussia and Austria, Karl was forced to travel under secrecy to Romania, using the name Karl Hettingen. The noblemen of Romania agreed, and Karl set off for the nation in 1866. As it was under the influence of the French at the time, the emperor, Napoleon III, recommended that the nation should have Karl as its king. In the 1860s, Romania was in political turmoil after the ousting of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the former Domnitor of the country. This experience would go on to be of great importance in later life. During his childhood, he went to a military school in Münster, and took part in conflicts such as the German claim of Schleswig-Holstein in the Second Schleswig War, helping to press Prussia’s claim. Though a German prince working as a military officer in Prussia, Karl managed to become King of Romania through complicated dynastic intervention. Romania then became a republic for the first time in its history, and joined the European Union in 2007. With absolute control over the media, Ceausescu imposed his harsh regime for three decades, only ousted and killed when the Soviet Union collapsed. Nicolae Ceausescu assumed power in Romania in 1965, one of the worst dictators the world had ever seen. Due to German expansionism in Eastern Europe, Romania initially allied with them, only later to be conquered by the Soviet Union, and was made into a puppet state. However, with the coming of the Second World War, Romania fared badly. Romania emerged victorious, and gained new land. This expansion continued until the years prior to the First World War, when it would be altogether too dangerous to risk further expansion Romania remained neutral for the first two years of the war, only joining the Entente Powers due to promises of gaining land from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, despite a treaty made with the Alliance powers prior to the war. This successfully warded off the Ottomans for a couple of decades, until the Romanians struck back harder during the Balkans Wars to regain more ethnic Romanian territory. Owing to the instability that was brought about by the falling empire, the Russians and the French helped establish the Romanian Old Kingdom, only around half the size of the state today. The Kingdom of Romania was a state that existed in Eastern Europe after the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the region.
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