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"Hora Unirii" [1] [2] ('Hora of the Union') is a poem by Vasile Alecsandri, published in 1856. The music of the song was composed by Alexandru Flechtenmacher [ ro ] . The song is sung and danced especially on 24 January, the anniversary of the day in which the Romanian United Principalities were formally united in 1859. [ 3 ]
The Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (Romanian: Ziua Unirii Principatelor Române) or, unofficially, the Little Union Day (Romanian: Ziua Micii Uniri), [1] is a public holiday of Romania celebrated every 24 January to commemorate the unification of the Romanian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), also known as the "Little Union", on 24 January 1859 under prince ...
[1] On 28 January 2016, Romanian journalist George Roca published an article stating that the anthem of the Dutch city of Maastricht had been copied from "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire". Mestreechs Volksleed , adopted in 2002, had a great similarity to the Romanian song, so Roca compared both songs and the Albanian anthem.
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Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]; 21 July 1821 – 22 August 1890) was a Romanian patriot, [1] [2] [3] poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat. [4] He was one of the key figures during the 1848 revolutions in Moldavia and Wallachia.
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 anthem was also used on various solemn occasions in the Moldavian Democratic Republic during its brief existence between 1917 and 1918. [1] Between 1991 and 1994, " Deșteaptă-te, române! " was the national anthem of Moldova before it was subsequently replaced by " Limba noastră " ('Our Language').
"Treceți, batalioane române, Carpații" (transl. "Cross, Romanian battalions, the Carpathians") is a Romanian patriotic song.It is thought to have been composed in 1916, shortly before Romania's entry into World War I, although its first historical apparition occurred in February 1919, when members of the Romanian Legion of Transylvanian–Bukovinian Volunteers were recorded singing a ...