What is Alexander Joan Cuza?
{{Infobox_Monarch | name = Alexander Joan Cuza | title = [[List of rulers of Moldavia|Prince of Moldavia]] (until 1862)<br />[[List of rulers of Wallachia|Prince of Wallachia]] (until 1862)<br />[[Domnitor|Domnitor of Romania]] (after 1862) | image = Alexandru Ioan Cuza - Photo by Carol Popp de Szathmáry.jpg | caption = | reign = January 24, 1859 - February 22, 1866 | coronation = | predecessor = ([[Kaymakam|Caimacams]])<br />[[Moldavia]]: [[I. A. Cantacuzino]], [[Vasile Sturdza]], and [[Anastasie Panu]]<br />[[Wallachia]]: [[Ioan Manu]], [[Emanoil Băleanu]], and [[Ioan Al. Filipide]] | successor = [[Carol I of Romania|Carol I]] | suc-type = | heir = | spouse = [[Elena Cuza]] <small>n. Rosetti</small> | issue = Alexandru Al. Ioan Cuza and Dimitrie Cuza. (Both illegitimate) | royal house = ''none'' | royal anthem = | father = Ioan Cuza | mother = Sultana Cuza <small>n. Cozadini</small> | birth_date = {{birth date|1820|3|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Huşi]], [[Moldavia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1873|5|3|1820|3|20|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]] | burial_place= [[Ruginoasa]], [[Romania]] |}} '''Alexander Joan Cuza''' (a common English rendition of '''Alexandru Ioan Cuza'''; March 20, 1820 – May 15, 1873) was a [[Moldavia]]n-born [[Romania]]n politician who ruled as the first ''[[Domnitor]]'' of the [[Danubian Principalities|United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia]] between 1859 and 1866.<ref name=Stoica1>{{cite book|last=Stoica|first=Vasile|title=The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands|year=1919|publisher=Pittsburgh Printing Company|location=Pittsburgh|page=69-70|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7314/view/1/69/}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuza, Alexander Joan}} [[Category:1820 births]] [[Category:1873 deaths]] [[Category:Kings of Romania]] [[Category:Rulers of Wallachia]]