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	Capet 19
		King Charles II "le Boiteux" of Naples and Jerusalem (1285-1309), Ct of Provence, 1254, +Casanova 6.5.1309, bur Aix-en-Provence; m.1270 Maria of Hungary (ca 1257 +25.3.1323)
		King Charles Robert of Hungary (1308-42) as Károly I Róbert -cr 1310, 1288, +Visegrad 16.7.1342, bur Székesfehérvár; 1m: Maria of Halicz, dau.of Pr Lev II of Halicz; 2m: 1306 Maria of Silesia-Beuthen (+Temesvár 15.12.1315, bur Székesfehérvár); 3m: 24.6.1318 Beatrix de Luxembourg (1305 +11.11.1319) dau.of Emperor Heinrich VII; 4m: 6.7.1320 Queen Elisabeth of Poland (*1305 +29.12.1380)
		Philip, Pr of Tarento, Despot of Romania, Lord of Durazzo, Pr of Achaia, titular Emperor of Constantinople 1313, 10.11.1278, +Naples 26.12.1332; 1m: L'Aquila IX.1294 (div 1309) Thamar Komnene Dukaina, Despota of Epirus (1277 +1311); 2m: Fontainebleau 6.4./30.7.1313 Catherine II de Valois, titular Empress of Constantinople, Pss of Achaia (*1303 +20.9./X.1346)
	genealogy.euweb.cz /capet/capet19.html (1184 words)

	Carol II of Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carol II of Romania, (15 October 1893 – 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from June 8, 1930 until September 6, 1940.
		Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria.
		Forced under first Soviet and subsequently Hungarian, Bulgarian, Italian and German pressure to surrender parts of his kingdom to foreign rule, he was outmanoevred at last by the pro-German administration of Marshal Ion Antonescu, and abdicated in favour of Michael, settling ultimately in Portugal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carol_II_of_Romania (523 words)

	Michael I of Romania Online Research :: Information about Michael I of Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He is a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, a third cousin of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and one of the last living public figures from the World War II era.
		Michael's children are Margarita, Crown Princess of Romania (born 1949), Princess Elena of Romania (Mrs Helen McAteer) (born 1950), Irina (Mrs Irina Kreuger) (born 1953), Sophia (born 1957) and Princess Marie of Romania (born 1964).
		Preceded by: Ferdinand of Romania King of Romania 1927 â“ 1930 Succeeded by: Charles II of Romania
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Michael_of_Romania.html (867 words)

	Articles - Charles II of Naples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles was also to induce his cousin Charles of Valois to renounce for twenty thousand pounds of silver the kingdom of Aragon which given him by Pope Martin IV to punish Peter for having invaded Sicily, but which the Valois had never effectively occupied.
		The ensuring war was fought on land and sea but Charles, though aided by the pope, his cousin Charles of Valois and James, was unable to conquer the island, and his son the prince of Taranto was taken prisoner at the battle of La Falconara in 1299.
		Charles gave up all rights to Sicily and agreed to the marriage of his daughter Leonora and King Frederick; the treaty was ratified by the pope in 1303.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Charles_II_of_Naples (652 words)

	Abdication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Richard II of England, for example, was forced to abdicate after the throne was seized by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, while Richard was out of the country.
		When James II of England, after throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the Thames, fled to France in 1688, he did not formally resign the crown, and the question was discussed in parliament whether he had forfeited the throne or had abdicated.
		Charles abdicated as king of the Netherlands (October 25, 1555) and of Spain (January 16, 1556), in favor of his son Philip II of Spain.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ab/Abdication.htm (646 words)

	CAROL II OF ROMANIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Carol II of Romania, (15_October 1893 – 4_April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from June_8, 1930 until September_6, 1940.
		Known more for his romantic misadventures than for any leadership skills, Carol (Romanian for "Charles") first married in Odessa,_Ukraine, 31_August, 1918, in contravention of royal law, Joanna Marie Valentina Lambrino, (Zizi_Lambrino) (1898–1953), daughter of a Romanian general; they had one son, Mircea_Gregor_Carol_Lambrino, and the marriage was annulled by royal decree in 1919.
		Forced under first Soviet and subsequently Hungarian, Bulgarian, Italian and German pressure to surrender parts of his kingdom to foreign rule, he was outmanoevred at last by the pro-German administration of Marshal Ion_Antonescu, and abdicated in favour of Michael, settling ultimately in Portugal.
	www.rocgames.com /Carol_II_of_Romania (525 words)

	Romania World
		Romania's climate is continental, with hot summers and cold winters.
		Romania is noted for its orchards and vineyards, and a variety of wines are produced and exported.
		Romania was the first of 22 countries to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Partnership for Peace program in 1994.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/8982/romania.html (2176 words)

	boys clothing: British royalty: Charles II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles was the second, but eldest surviving son of Charles I. His father, Charles I, had been executed by Cromwell, bit he and his younger brother James had been spirited away to France for saftey.
		Charles was the second, but eldest surviving son of Charles I. His father, Charles I, had been executed by Cromwell, but he and his younger brother James had been spirited away to France for saftey.
		Charles took his seat in the House of Lords in 1641 and held a nominal military command in the early campaigns of the first civil war of the English Revolution.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/eng/royal-ukc2.htm (1255 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Constans II was the last Emperor to campagin in northern Italy and visit Rome as an Imperial possession (later the Palaeologi went to beg for help).
		With the decline of Romania, Venice largely pursued its affairs at the expense of Contantinople and only came to be pushed out of the area altogether by the Ottomans.
		By the settlement with the Crusaders, Venice was ceded 3/8 of the Empire, and the Doge henceforth styled himself quartae partis et dimidiae totius imperii Romaniae Dominator ("Lord of a quarter and a half [of a quarter] of the whole Empire of Romania").
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14397 words)

	Romania - Wikitravel
		With a Black Sea coast to the east, it is surrounded by Bulgaria to the south, Serbia and Montenegro to the southwest, Hungary to the northwest, Moldova to the northeast and Ukraine in both the north and the east.
		Travelling inside Romania or to and from Romania by train is a fascinating experience, because they are one of the glimmering gems of this country.
		Romania's railway network is one of the largest (the 4th in Europe) and most dense in Europe, with trains servicing every town and city in the country, and the vast majority of the villages.
	wikitravel.org /en/Romania (4808 words)

	National revival in Romania, 1848-1866
		However, when revolution came to Romania in 1848, it was not directed primarily at Turkish landlords (as was the case in Serbia and Greece) nor did the revolutionaries have a goal like the revival of a Greek Empire in the East.
		Romania was Orthodox but church services were conducted in Old Church Slavonic, not in Greek.
		For Romania, the key factor was the isolation of Russia.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect08.htm (4308 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Abdication
		Ill health caused the abdication of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V in 1558 and of King Philip V of Spain in 1724.
		King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia was compelled by the French government to abdicate in 1802; his successor, King Victor Emmanuel I, abdicated in 1821 in the face of a popular uprising against his regime.
		Foreign force compelled the abdications of the Polish kings Augustus II the Strong, Stanisław I Leszczyński (1735), and Stanisław II Augustus (1795) and of Charles IV of Spain (1808).
	encarta.msn.com /text_761567866__1/Abdication.html (541 words)

	The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
		Consequently, Charles Gordon, known as "Chinese Gordon" for his part in putting down the Taiping Rebellion in China (1860-1864), and who had already been governor-general of the Sudan from 1877-1880, was sent back in order to evacuate the Egyptian garrison.
		Thus, "Modern Romania" here means the modern successor states, first to Rome ("Romania" to itself, "Byzantium" to the historians), second to the Ottoman Empire, which in the 14th and 15th centuries established its domination over all former Roman possessions, and more, in the Eastern Mediterranean.
		King Carol II then married Helen of Greece, who was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, through her mother Sophia, the sister of Kaiser Wilhlem II of Germany.
	www.friesian.com /turkia.htm (13594 words)

	Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Romania consists essentially of three states north of Bulgaria: the southernmost, Walachia; to the north Moldova; and to the west Transylvania.
		At the 1878 Congress of Berlin, although Romania's independence was recognized by the Great Powers of Europe, Russia further "rewarded" Romania for its assistance against the Ottoman Empire by annexing southern Bessarabia, a province the rest of which Russia had taken in 1812.
		Although Romania's economy is showing signs of growth, Romania remains one of the most underdeveloped countries in Europe.
	www.geohistory.com /GeoHistory/GHMaps/GeoWorld/Roman.html (1803 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		Though Romania is the Balkan peninsula's largest state, it sees itself as bearer of a Latin rather than Slavic heritage.
		Romania took almost 2,000 years to coalesce, but while Jewish communities did not begin to form in the area until 500 years ago or less, Jews existed in the region almost from the beginning.
		The country entered World War II on the Axis side and was put in charge of the Jews from Walachia and Moldavia.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/March/travel.htm (2282 words)

	Charles II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Charles II The name Charles II is used to refer to numerous persons in history:
		(Click link for more info and facts about Charles the Fat) Charles the Fat (also known as Charles II of France and Charles III of the Holy Roman Empire)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_ii1.htm (202 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		King Charles II was warmly congratulated when he dissolved Parliament and banished political parties in 1938.
		The liberal governments that ran Romania after independence in 1877 were manned by Paris-educated liberal aristocrats, the first in their families to have turned from agriculture to other entrepreneurial activities and who knew that industry alone could alleviate the country’s backwardness.
		From the first king of Romania (and the concession of the first railroad) to the last king and government before WWII, state property and the role of the state in developing Romania were accompanied by widespread influence-peddling and corruption.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num4/feature/breakingfree.html (4229 words)

	Eastern Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A town and district in modern Romania 120 miles (200 km.) northeast of Bucharest.
		The frontier region between Hungary and Romania - in an extended sense the land between the Tisza River, the Szamos River, the Muresul River, and the Transylvanian highlands.
		Osman Pasha is one of the best-known leaders of the Kurdzhali, wandering bands of armed men treading the grey area between bandit and rebel, who infested the eastern Balkans at the beginning of the 19th century.
	www.hostkingdom.net /eastbalk.html (656 words)

	New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Charles Krauthammer: Gulf II is a warning to world's tyrants . . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles Krauthammer, who was born in New York and raised in Montreal, won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.
		Gulf War II is a monumental event: the first war ever aimed at destroying a totalitarian regime and sparing the invaded country.
		The surgical removal of a one-party police state while trying to leave the civilians and the infrastructure as untouched as possible was an operation of unusual difficulty.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/ideas_opinions/story/74323p-68785c.html (722 words)

	Charles II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Charles II is used to refer to numerous persons in history:
		Charles the Bald (also known as Charles II of France and Charles II of the Holy Roman Empire)
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_II (98 words)

	The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographies - H
		Attended the II Extraordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, November 24 to December 8, 1985; VII Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 1-30, 1987.
		In the II Vatican Council, 1962-1965, was assistant of study of the commissions for the discipline of the clergy and the Christian people.
		Consecrated, January 6, 1991, patriarchal Vatican basilica, by Pope John Paul II, assisted by Giovanni Battista Re, titular archbishop of Vescovio, substitute of the Secretariat of State, and by Justin Francis Rigali, titular archbishop of Bolsena, secretary of the Congregation for Bishops.
	www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/bios-h.htm (5309 words)

	Transylvania The Legend by Andrei Tamas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the 15th century, Romania was made up of a number of small states, each with an independent ruler.
		In Romania this success has been met in various ways: from a quick way to make a buck to paranoid nationalist accusations that Dracula is a Hungarian plot to debase a Romanian hero.
		In 15th Century Romania, judging Vlad Tepes as hero, villain, or sadistic psychopath depended on which side of the stake you stood.
	members.aol.com /atamas/transylvania.htm (3253 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		The Nazi-Soviet cooperation that had enabled Adolf HITLER to launch World War II was strengthened in the first phase of that conflict.
		Although Free French leaders would soon rally around Gen. Charles de Gaulle in London and work with the Allies, the pliant government of PETAIN continued to function in France, establishing itself at Vichy because Paris was in the zone of German occupation.
		The USSR would be predominant in Romania and Bulgaria; influence would be shared equally in Yugoslavia, where the British had backed Marshal Tito's Partisans since 1943, and in Hungary; and Britain would be predominant in Greece.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_14.html (10664 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Gulf War II is first of its kind by Charles Krauthammer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But in World War II, we made war not just on the regime but on the whole country.
		Cities were firebombed with the intent of breaking the people (``the Hun,'' as Churchill liked to call the Germans) and destroying the whole of their industrial civilization.
		Charles Krauthammer is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, 1984 National Magazine Award winner, and a columnist for The Washington Post since 1985.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/charleskrauthammer/ck20030410.shtml (929 words)

	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles I of France (Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles** the Bald)
		**Charles III, Prince of MonacoCharles III of Monaco
		Saint Charles* Borromeo, saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, archbishop of Milano
	www.echostatic.com /Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand.html (194 words)

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		1881-1914: CHARLES I (Carol I) Born in 1839 in Sigmaringen.
		Issue of marriage: CAROL II (1893,†1953); Elizabeth (1894,†1956; Queen of Greece); Marie (1900,†1961; Queen of Yugoslavia); Nicolae (1903,†1978); Ileana; Mircea (*1913,†1916).
		In 2003 king's remains were translated to Romania and buried at the monastery of Curtea de Arges.
	homepage.mac.com /crowns/r/avtxt.html (1336 words)

	Charles_I_of_Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Carol I, original name Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (April 20, 1839 - October 10, 1914) was elected Domnitor (prince) of Romania in April 1866 following the overthrow of Alexander John Cuza, and proclaimed king on March 26, 1881.
		He was the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty which would rule the country until the proclamation of a republic in 1947.
		In October 1880 Leopold renounced his right of succession in favour of his son William, who in turn surrendered his claim eight years later in favour of his younger brother, the future king Ferdinand.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Charles_I_of_Romania (243 words)

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