Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1881 – 1947

Kingdom of Romania

A state of 1881 – 1947 — 66 years in Europe. It replaced Austria-Hungary, United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia and National Legionary State and 1 more and followed First Hungarian Republic, Banat Republic and Moldavian Democratic Republic and 1 more. It was replaced by Kingdom of Romania under Fascism and Romanian People's Republic and followed by Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kingdom of Bulgaria and Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The atlas records 35 things within it — wars and battles 4 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 4 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 1 · people 24. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
66 years
1881 – 1947
Rulers
4
the King of Romania
Most ground
302,000 km²
in 1919
Within it
35
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Kingdom of Romania in 1919, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Kingdom of Romania in 1919, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 302,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Banat Republic: 1918 – 1918National Legionary State: 1940 – 1941Austria-Hungary: 1867 – 1918Kingdom of Romania under Fascism: 1937 – 1938Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1919 – 1991Kingdom of Bulgaria: 1908 – 1946Kingdom of Romania: 1881 – 1947

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

The line of King of Romania.

Carol I of Romania · 1881 – 1914 · died in office, manner not recordedFerdinand I of Romania · 1914 – 1927 · died in office, manner not recordedMichael I of Romania · 1927 – 1930 · left office aliveCarol II of Romania · 1930 – 1940 · abdicatedMichael I of Romania · 1940 – 1947 · removed by a coup190019201940
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Carol I of Romania1881 – 191433 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Ferdinand I of Romania1914 – 192713 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonenephew or niece
Michael I of Romania1927 – 19303 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonegrandchild
Carol II of Romania1930 – 194010 yearsabdicatedWikidata's end cause on the termparent
Michael I of Romania1940 – 19477 yearsremoved by a coupWikidata's end cause on the termchild

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1881 – 1947. Median reign 10 years. 2 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

19251930193519401945

300,100 km² in 1921, 237,600 km² in 1947; at its largest 300,100 km² in 1921. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Kingdom of Romania - Big CoA
    coat of arms, undatedKingdom of Romania - Big CoA · CC BY 3.0 · Răzvan Pala, with suggestions and corrections by Alex Daneş
  • Flag of Romania
    flag, from 1848Flag of Romania · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 1899: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other18001900 – 1999: 29 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 5 risings, regime changes and massacres, 20 other1900

1800 – 18996 rows

1900 – 199929 rows · 4 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 21 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood66 years

    stood longer than 38% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held302,000 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 66% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 23 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Duchy of Bukovina · Linked · 1849 – 1918Duchy of BukovinaUnited Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia · Linked · 1859 – 1881United Principalities of Moldavi…Austria-Hungary · Linked · 1867 – 1918Austria-HungaryLands of the Crown of Saint Stephen · Linked · 1867 – 1918Lands of the Crown of Saint Step…Russo-Turkish War · In the article · 1877 · “Following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, Romania was recognized as an independent state by the Treaty of Berlin, 1878 and acquired Dobruja, although it w…”Russo-Turkish WarMihail Kogălniceanu · Coincidence · 1817 – 1891Mihail KogălniceanuKingdom of Romania · 1881 – 1947Kingdom of RomaniaRomanian People's Republic · Linked · 1947 – 1965Romanian People's RepublicMoldavian Soviet Socialist Republic · Linked · 1940 – 1991Moldavian Soviet Socialist Repub…1850190019502000
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Demographic-structural breakdown

    Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: 3 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • famine, plague or disaster within 30 y in the state, or population up 25% over 50 y — prior
    • overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 3
    • a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing; warEnded

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q203493 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.