<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Ioan_Cuza" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexandru Ioan Cuza">Alexandru Ioan Cuza</a>, Prince of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moldavia">Moldavia</a>, is also elected as prince of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachia" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wallachia">Wallachia</a>, joining the two principalities as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union" id="mwWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Personal union">personal union</a> called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Principalities_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia">United Principalities</a>, an autonomous region within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, which ushered in the birth of the modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Romania">Romanian</a> state.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_5#cite_note-10" id="mwXw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwYA">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFStoica1919">Stoica, Vasile (1919). <a class="external text" href="https://www.wdl.org/en/item/7314/view/1/69/" id="mwBtU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBtY">The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands</i></a>. Pittsburgh Printing Company. p.<span id="mwBtc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>69 <span id="mwBtg" typeof="mw:Entity">–</span> via <a href="./World_Digital_Library" id="mwBtk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World Digital Library">World Digital Library</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwBto" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Roumanian+Question%3A+The+Roumanians+and+their+Lands&amp;rft.pages=69&amp;rft.pub=Pittsburgh+Printing+Company&amp;rft.date=1919&amp;rft.aulast=Stoica&amp;rft.aufirst=Vasile&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wdl.org%2Fen%2Fitem%2F7314%2Fview%2F1%2F69%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+5"></span></span>