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Map of Romania in 1919 with new regions annexed to it. Great Union Day (Romanian: Ziua Marii Uniri; also called Unification Day [1] or National Day) is a Romanian national holiday celebrated on 1 December to mark the 1918 Great Union (the unification of Transylvania, Bassarabia, and Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania). [2]
Map of the Kingdom of Romania between 1918 and 1940 (Greater Romania) and its historical regions. In Romanian historiography, the Great Union (Romanian: Marea Unire) or Great Union of 1918 (Marea Unire din 1918) was the series of political unifications the Kingdom of Romania had with several of the Romanian historical regions, starting with Bessarabia on 27 March 1918, continuing with Bukovina ...
The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia (December 1, 1918) First page of Transilvania newspaper from December 1918, referring to the event. On December 1, 1918 (N.S., November 18 O.S.), the National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary, consisting of 1,228 elected representatives of Romanians in Transylvania, Banat, Crișana and Maramureș, convened in Alba Iulia and decreed (by ...
Picture of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, taken by Samoilă Mârza. The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia (Romanian: Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia) was an assembly held on 1 December 1918 in the city of Alba Iulia in which a total of 1,228 delegates from several areas inhabited by ethnic Romanians declared the union of Transylvania with Romania.
It's named to celebrate 1 December 1918, when the union between Romania and Transylvania occurred – It is a public holiday in Romania. It is on the Linia de Centură branch of the Bucharest Metro and was opened on 20 November 2008 as part of the extension from Nicolae Grigorescu to Linia de Centură (now Anghel Saligny ).
After the Communist takeover in the aftermath of World War II, the name was changed to 30 Decembrie (December 30), to commemorate the day when the country became a republic in 1947. In 1996, following the Romanian Revolution , the name was changed to 1 Decembrie (December 1), which marks Union Day , the day when the Kingdom of Romania was ...
1900 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty [ 10 ]
The day is celebrated by the local authorities and population of various cities, towns and villages mostly in the Romanian part of Bukovina, such as Rădăuți, [5] Suceava, [6] [7] Putna [8] [9] Vatra Dornei, [10] and Câmpulung Moldovenesc, [11] [12] but also in Chernivtsi, in Ukraine. [13]