State · 1859 – 1881
United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
A state of 1859 – 1881 — 22 years in Europe. It replaced Principality of Moldavia and Principality of Wallachia and followed Northern Dobruja. It was replaced by Romania, Kingdom of Romania and Romanian Old Kingdom and followed by Bessarabia Governorate. The atlas records 9 things within it — people 9. Its line of rulers holds 1 person.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 22 years
- 1859 – 1881
- Rulers
- 1
- the Domnitor of Romania
- Most ground
- 130,000 km²
- in 1880
- Within it
- 9
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
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
- Principality of Moldavia · replaces · 1346 – 1859
- Principality of Wallachia · replaces · 1330 – 1859
- Northern Dobruja · follows
After it
- Kingdom of Romania · replaced by · 1881 – 1947
- Romania · replaced by · 1989 – present
- Romanian Old Kingdom · replaced by · 1881 – 1918
- Bessarabia Governorate · followed by
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carol I of Romania | 1866 – 1881 | 15 years | ending not on record |
1 rulers, 1 with terms dated as terms, covering 1866 – 1881. Only 15 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 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.
128,300 km² in 1859, 130,000 km² in 1881; at its largest 130,000 km² in 1881. 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.
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flag, to 1867Flag of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (1859 - 1862) · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedPrincipality of Romania - 1872 CoA · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedStemaCuza2 · 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 – 18999 rows
- Nicolae Iorga · philosopher · 1871 – 1940
- Alexandru Averescu · politician · 1859 – 1938
- Ion I. C. Brătianu · inventor · 1864 – 1927
- Aleksandar Tsankov · politician · 1879 – 1959
- Constantin Prezan · politician · 1861 – 1943
- Aleksandar Malinov · politician · 1867 – 1938
- Vasil Kutinchev · commander · 1859 – 1941
- Elena Bacaloglu · politician · 1878 – 1947
and 1 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 stood22 years
stood longer than 23% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held130,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 51% 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.
- Rulers on record1
has more rulers on record than 13% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 8 causes the record names and 4 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.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1849 – 1891, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1880, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q958291 (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.