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| | Alexander John Cuza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Alexandru Ioan Cuza (March 20, 1820, Galaţi - May 15, 1873, Heidelberg), more commonly known in English as Alexander John Cuza, was the domnitor (ruler) of the United Principalites of Romania between 1859 and 1866. |
 | | Afterwards however, following a brief career in the Moldavian army, he became minister of war in 1858, and represented Galaţi in the assembly at Iaşi, acting under the guarantee of the European Powers in the wake of the Crimean war to nominate a prince for Moldavia. |
 | | The Powers backtracked, Napoleon III of France remaining supportive, while the reactionary Austro-Hungarian ministry withheld approval of such a union at the Congress of Paris (October 18, 1858); partly as a consequence Cuza's authority was not recognized by his nominal suzerain, the sultan of Turkey, until the December 23, 1861. |
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