List of rulers of Romania
Antiquity
- Kingdom of Dacia (center of Transylvania and the surrounding area, Black Sea to Moravia) - see also Dacians and Geten
- Burebista (uncertain: * 111 BC; around 65–44 BC)
- Interregnum: 44 BC Until uncertain
- uncertain: King around 35–29 BC Chr.
- 29 BC BC defeat against Octavian
- uncertain: about five kings (85 invasion of the Roman province of Moesia , founding of Greater Dacia)
- Decebalus around 85-106
- 102-106 Interregnum: Roman invasion 102 and armistice. From 106 under Trajan, Roman province of Dacia
- Roman governors 106-271
- in Transylvania Gepiden kings around 250-567
- Remnants of 'Romania' 3rd or 4th century Goths , then Huns , Gepid Empire
- Avars -Könige 6th-8th century
Middle Ages until 1867
- Pechenegen 11th century
- Cumans 11-13 Century; Mongol invasion 1241
- Hungary kings 12th or 13th century
- independent principalities from the 14th century, see also:
- List of rulers of Moldova (from 1359 Bogdan I )
- List of Princes of Transylvania ( Transylvania )
- List of rulers of Wallachia (from 1330)
- In 1460 or 1540 tribute to the Ottomans , in 1699 Transylvania to the Habsburg Empire
- from 1711 or 1716 Greek Phanariotes : Moldau and Wallachia
- from 1718 Habsburgs : Northern Moldavia, Banat , Little Wallachia
- from 1822 Eastern Romanian principality, 1829 under Russian protective power, after the Peace of Paris in 1856 protectorate of the 7 signatory powers
- from 1867 (" compensation ") Transylvania increased Magyarization .
Kingdom of Romania (1859-1947)
Election of Colonel AI Cuza (capital of the united Danube Principalities : Jassy); As Prince Alexandru Ioan I, he proclaimed the common state of Romania on January 24, 1861 .
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza 1859–1868 (Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ).
- uncertain: Interregnum 1866–1877, election of Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as prince
- Charles I 1877–1914 (confirmed by the Berlin Congress in 1878)
- Ferdinand I. (his nephew) 1916–1927
- Charles II. 1925 (Crown Prince, forced to abdicate)
- Michael I (minor) 1927–1930
- Charles II 1930–1940; "Little Entente", from 1934 based on Germany
- General Ion Antonescu's coup on September 6, 1940
- Michael I. 1940-1947
- December 10, 1947 Abolition of the monarchy (Communist Party leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej )