Domnitor (pl. domnitori) was the official title of the ruler of Romania between 1859 and 1881. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

It was used officially only after Wallachia and Moldavia chose the same ruler in 1859. Before that the Wallachian and Moldavian rulers had the title of voivode, as they were officially nominated by the Turkish Sultan, although unofficially they were known as domnitori. The word itself is derived from the Romanian "domn" (lord), from Latin "Dominus" (compare the Roman Dominate). Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... For the heavy metal music band see Voivod (band). ...

There were only two domnitors of Romania :

• Alexander John = Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859 - 1866, overthrown)
• Charles = Carol I of Romania (elected 1866 - 1881), of the new -and last- dynasty of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

In 1881, Carol was crowned as King of Romania, which had been recognized an independent principality in 1877/78 instead of an Ottoman vassal, but only in 1918 the country would obtain Transylvania (before that was a 'Hungarian' Habsburg grand duchy under the name Siebenbürgen) and Bessarabia (lost again in 1940-45 to become the soviet republic of Moldavia). Alexander John (Alexandru Ioan) Cuza Alexandru Ioan Cuza (March 20, 1820, Galaţi - May 15, 1873, Heidelberg), known more commonly in English as Alexander John Cuza, was the ruler (1859-1866) of the United Principalites of Romania. ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 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. ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is the cadet branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty (less known however than the Franconian branch which became Burgraves of Nuremberg and later ruled Brandenburg, Prussia and ultimately Germany in the centuries to 1918); the Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ruled over a small principality... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The King of Romania was the title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947 when Romania was proclaimed a republic. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: Transilvanija, Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvánia, Polish: Siedmiogród) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ...