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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 day was promulgated as a holiday by Law No. 250/2015 by the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, on 28 October 2015.The Senate of Romania had already accepted the proposal on 2 October 2013, while the Chamber of Deputies approved it only on 7 October 2015. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
An Indian drama film with the climax and pivotal plot resolution taking place on Christmas Eve. Christmas Rematch: 2004: Sequel to 1984 film, Christmas Present. An Italian film about a group of former friends that meet again on Christmas Eve for a rematch of a poker game that took part many years ago, with some planning to settle scores. A ...
Sarah Gilmartin comes with her mother Martha to keep house for a widower and his two grown sons, on their farm in Ireland in 1909. After Hamilton Echlin Sr. dies in a boating accident, Sarah's mother, dismayed by his sons' and her own daughter's refusal to attend church and behave in a manner she approves of, leaves the household, but Sarah stays on as housekeeper, and eventually takes first ...
The film, which includes one of the last appearances of Ian Richardson before his death, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. It is a fictionalised account of an actual event that took place in December 1914, when Wilhelm, German Crown Prince , sent the lead singer of the Berlin Imperial Opera company on a ...