The earliest written mention of the village Folticeni is from March 1490, and the second from March 1554, when Moldavian Prince Alexandru Lăpuşneanu awarded the estate and the village bearing the aforesaid name to Moldoviţa Monastery.

Also, Negruzzi writes in " Alexandru Lăpuşneanu ": " In Moldavia at this time, fine food wasn't fashioned.

He came to Moldavia in 1556, in service to Voivode Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, pretending to be a relative of Ruxandra's, Lăpuşneanu's wife.

* Alexandru I cel Bun ( Alexander the Good ) (?- 1432 ) a Voivode of Moldavia

* Voivode Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia (?

The name of the city is first officially mentioned in a document about commercial privilege granted by the Moldavian Prince ( Voivode ) Alexandru cel Bun to the Polish merchants of Lvov in 1408.

Alexander cel Bun ( or Alexandru I Mușat ) was a Voivode ( Prince ) of Moldavia, reigning between 1400 and 1432, son of Roman I Mușat.

* 1859 – Political and state union of Moldavia and Wallachia ; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as Domnitor in bouth Principalities.

* Stephen II of Moldavia ( died 1447 ), prince, son of Alexandru cel Bun

The electors in both Moldavia and Wallachia chose the same person – Alexandru Ioan Cuza – as prince ( Domnitor in Romanian ).

As a result, Wallachia and Moldavia both elected Alexandru Ioan Cuza in 1859 as their prince, creating a personal union.

In the 1850s ( after the Crimean War ), Focşani grew in importance as the center of activities in favor of the union between Wallachia and Moldavia ( the Danubian Principalities ), leading to the double election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Iaşi and Bucharest.

In 1859, after the union of Moldavia and Walachia had been effected, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza asked Ion Ghica to return.

* Personal union between Wallachia and Moldavia from 1859 to 1862 under the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza

His second wife, Princess ( Cneajna ) Vasilissa of Moldavia, was the eldest daughter of Alexandru cel Bun and paternal aunt of Stephen the Great of Moldavia.

Initially stalled by a much-criticized temporary armistice with Romanian Army leader Alexandru Averescu, Rakovsky ordered a fresh offensive in Moldavia, but had to retreat when the Central Powers, confronted with Trotsky's refusal to accept their version of a Russo-German peace, began their own military operation and occupied Odessa ( setting free Romanians who had been imprisoned there ).

His mother is believed to be the second wife of Vlad Dracul, Princess Cneajna of Moldavia, eldest daughter of Alexandru cel Bun and aunt to Stephen the Great of Moldavia.

The idea behind the design of the coat of arms of Romania dates since 1859, when the two Romanian countries, Wallachia and Moldavia, united under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza.

After the unification of Wallachia and Moldavia, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the ruling Domnitor of the Romanian Principalities, decided on the 22nd of October 1860 by order no.

Further many of the Phanariote princes were capable and farsighted rulers: As prince of Walachia in 1746 and of Moldavia in 1749, Constantin Mavrocordat abolished serfdom, and Alexandru Ipsilanti of Walachia ( reigned 1774 – 1782 ) initiated extensive administrative and legal reforms.

Ioan Sturdza ( Ioan Sandu Sturdza or Ioniţă Sandu Sturdza ; his first name may be given as John ) was a Prince of Moldavia ( June 21, 1822 – May 5, 1828 ) and the most famous descendant of Alexandru Sturdza.

Alexandru Sturdza was a member of the Sturdza family, born in Jassy, in Moldavia, and related to the Greek Phanariote family of the Mourousis through his mother.

Alexandru Iliaş was appointed as the ruler of Moldavia, the rebel Graziani having been killed during his flight on 29 September.

However, as they could no longer trust Phanariote rule in the face of its infiltration by Greek nationalism ( Ypsilanti himself came from a Phanariote family-see Alexandru Ipsilanti, his grandfather, and Constantin Ipsilanti, his father ), the Ottomans returned the two Principalities to rule by and through locals ( in 1822 ): Grigore IV Ghica in Wallachia, Ioan Sturdza ( Ioniţă Sandu Sturdza ) in Moldavia.

However, on 25 July, the government resigned on pressure from the Ottoman Empire, and after the Ottoman intervention of September, Nicolae Golescu went into exile, to return in the 1850s and support Alexandru Ioan Cuza's bid for the throne of a united Danubian Principalities ( Wallachia and Moldavia ).

At that time the rulling prince of Moldavia was Alexandru cel Bun.

* Alexandru I Aldea, ruler of the principality of Wallachia ( 1431 – 1436 )

* 1811 – Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins ( d. 1872 )

* November 14 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician ( d. 1938 )

* May 15 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, first ruler of Romania ( b. 1820 )

* March 20 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania's first reigning Domnitor ( d. 1873 )

He contributed to the tactics used during the Battle of Mărăşeşti ( July – August 1917 ), when Romanians under General Alexandru Averescu managed to stop the advance of German forces under the command of Field Marshal August von Mackensen.

During the reign of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza ( 1859 – 1866 ), Catargiu was one of the Opposition leaders, and received much assistance from his kinsman, Barbu Catargiu ( b. 1807 ), a noted journalist and politician, who was assassinated in Bucharest on the June 20, 1862.

Prominent figures in Moldova's cultural development include mitropolitans Varlaam and Dosoftei, Grigore Ureche, Miron Costin, mitropolitan of Kiev Petru Movilă, scholars Nicolae Milescu-Spãtaru, Dimitrie Cantemir ( 1673 – 1723 ), and Ion Neculce, Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni, Alexandru Hîjdău, Alexandru Donici, Constantin Stamati, Costache Negruzzi, historian and philologist Bogdan P. Hasdeu ( 1836 – 1907 ), author Ion Creangă ( 1837 – 1889 ), and poet Mihai Eminescu ( 1850 – 1889 ).

* Christian Gastgeber – Ekaterini Mitsiou – Ioan Aurel Pop – Mihailo Popović – Johannes Preiser-Kapeller – Alexandru Simon ( Hrsg.

In 1561, Nasi backed Ioan Iacob Heraclid to rule as despot, supported Alexandru Lăpuşneanu's return to the throne in place of Ştefan Tomşa ( 1564 ), and ultimately endorsed Ion Vodă cel Cumplit ( 1572 ); he was himself considered a suitable choice for hospodar of either Moldavia or Wallachia in 1571, but Selim II rejected the proposal.

Around 1564, Prince Alexandru Lăpușneanu moved the Moldavian capital from Suceava to Iași.

* Stephen II of Moldavia ( died 1447 ), Prince ( Voivode ) of Moldavia

* Sas of Moldavia ( died 1358 ), Voivode ruling over what was to become Moldavia between 1354 – 1358

In 1387, she led two successful military expeditions to Red Ruthenia, recovered lands her father Louis I of Hungary had transferred from Poland to Hungary, and secured the homage of Petru I, Voivode of Moldavia.

The first mention of lăutari is from 1558 when Mircea Ciobanul, the Voivode of Wallachia, gives Ruste lăutarul ( Ruste the lăutar ) as a gift to the Vornic Dingă from Moldavia.

* Ioan Vodă cel Cumplit – ( 1521 – 1574 ) Voivode of Moldavia

Alexander Ypsilantis (-Alexandros Ypsilantis, ; 1725 – 1805 ) was a Greek Voivode ( Prince ) of Wallachia from 1775 to 1782, and again from 1796 to 1797, and also Voivode ( Prince ) of Moldavia from 1786 to 1788.

Petru I Muşat was Voivode ( prince ) of Moldavia from 1375 to 1391, the son of Costea Muşat, the first ruler from the dynastic House of Bogdan.

Mihai Viteazul, Voivode of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia.

Manifestly breaking apart with tradition, Heraclid ruled as Despot of Moldavia, and it was the adoption of this unusual title that established his Romanian tautological moniker-Despot Vodă ( The Despot Voivode or Despot the Voivode ).