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The union of Transylvania with Romania was declared on 1 December [O.S. 18 November] 1918 by the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia. The Great Union Day (also called Unification Day [1]), celebrated on 1 December, is a national holiday in Romania that celebrates this event.
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]
The Trianon Treaty Day (Romanian: Ziua Tratatului de la Trianon) is a holiday in Romania celebrated every 4 June to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. The holiday was first proposed in 2015 by the Romanian politician Titus Corlățean [ 1 ] and subsequently promulgated on 18 November 2020 by President Klaus Iohannis .
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 national holiday of Romania, the Great Union Day (also called Unification Day, [70]) occurring on December 1, celebrates this event. The holiday was established after the Romanian Revolution, and marks the unification not only of Transylvania but also of the provinces of Banat, Bessarabia and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom. These other ...
The Jewish community, which was the first in Transylvania, was established in the 14th century. [32] A community was officially founded by permission of Prince Gabriel Bethlen in 1623. [32] The 18th century saw an influx of Ashkenazim from Hungary and Wallachia, as well as Sephardim. From 1754 to 1868, the town rabbi was the chief rabbi of ...
The concept became a political reality when, in 1881, the Romanian National Party of Transylvania gathered Romanians on a common political platform to fight together for Transylvania's autonomy. [16] According to Livezeanu the creation of Greater Romania with "a unifying concept of nationhood" started to evolve in the late 1910s. [ 15 ]
The Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities was first adopted by the Senate on 2 June 2014 and later by the Chamber of Deputies on 3 December of the same year. The holiday became official when a few days later Romanian President Traian Băsescu signed a decree promulgating it on 16 December. Thus, Law No. 171/2014 dictates that ...