Ion Dragalina
Romanian general
Died when: 55 years 329 days (670 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Ioan Dragalina (16 December 1860 – 9 November 1916) was a Romanian general, who died during the World War I in the First Battle of the Jiu Valley.
Dragalina was born in the city of Karansebesch (now Caransebeș, Romania), which at the time was part of the Austrian Empire.
He was a descendant of a military family.His father, Alexandru Dragalina, served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army until his resignation in 1859.
His parents moved to Romania, where his father was appointed administrator of the border region.However, Marta Lazaroni, his mother, wanted to give birth in her ancestral home and thus the family returned to Karansebesch, where in 1860 Ion, the first of their four sons, was born.
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