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Ferdinand (1865–1927)

King of Romania from 1914, when he succeeded his uncle Charles I. In 1916 he declared war on Austria. After the Allied victory in World War I, Ferdinand acquired Transylvania and Bukovina from Austria-Hungary, and Bessarabia from Russia. In 1922 he became king of this Greater Romania. His reign saw agrarian reform and the introduction of universal suffrage.

Ferdinand (1861–1948)

King of Bulgaria 1908–18. Son of Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he was elected prince of Bulgaria in 1887 and, in 1908, proclaimed Bulgaria's independence from Turkey and assumed the title of tsar. In 1915 he entered World War I as Germany's ally, and in 1918 abdicated.



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Since less theocentric explanations for historical change were also acceptable in the period, could a dramatist of the political pedagogue persuasion, Calderon, offer historical exemplars more immediate to Philip IV's century than Gracian's Ferdinand the Catholic, or Saavedra's orthodox generalities (1819, 41) about Christian princeliness scattered through a hundred empresas?
Allegories of Kingship: Calderon and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition by Mayer, Maria E. / Renaissance Quarterly
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