Great Union Day on December 1st marks the unification of Transylvania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina with Romania in 1918. Prior to 1948, Romania's national holiday was May 10th, commemorating events in 1866 and 1877. During communist rule, the holiday was changed to August 23rd to mark the 1944 overthrow of the pro-fascist government. Ferdinand I, nicknamed "the Unifier," refused to sign a treaty giving up Romanian lands and re-entered World War 1 on the side of the allies. Following the war, he presided over a greatly enlarged Romania through victory and additional territorial gains.

1. 100 YEARS OF GREAT
UNION ROMANIA
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2. • Great Union Day also
called Unification Day occurring
on December 1, is the national
holiday of Romania. It marks the
unification
of Transylvania, Bessarabia,
and Bukovina with
the Romanian Kingdom in 1918.
This holiday was set after
the Romanian Revolution and
commemorates the assembly of
the delegates of ethnic
Romanians held in Alba Iulia,
which declared the Union of
Transylvania with Romania.

3. • Prior to 1948, the national holiday of Romania was set to be on May 10,
which had a double meaning: it was the day on which Carol I set foot
on the Romanian soil (in 1866), and it was the day on which the prince
ratified the Declaration of Independence (from the Ottoman Empire) in
1877. In Communist Romania, the date of the national holiday was set
to August 23 to mark the 1944 overthrow of the pro-fascist government
of Marshal Ion Antonescu. Every year, an annual military parade
on Constitution Square in Bucharest is held in honor of the occasion. A
parade is also held in the city of Alba Iulia.

4. Ferdinand I
Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad;
24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927),
nicknamed Întregitorul ("the Unifier"), was King
of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his
death in 1927.
Romania was surrounded by the Central Powers
and forced to conclude the Treaty of Bucharest,
1918. However, Ferdinand refused to sign the
treaty. When the Allied forces advanced on
the Thessaloniki front, they knocked Bulgariaout
of the war, and Ferdinand ordered the re-
mobilization of the Romanian Army. Romania re-
entered the war on the side of the Triple
Entente.

5. • The outcome of Romania's war effort
was the union
of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvani
a with the Kingdom of Romania in 1918.
Ferdinand became the ruler of a greatly
enlarged Romanian state in 1918–1920
following the Entente's victory over the
Central Powers, a war between
the Kingdom of Romania and
the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and
the civil war in Russia. He was
crowned King of Romania in a
spectacular ceremony on 15 October
1922 at the courtyard of the newly
opened "Coronation Cathedral" in the
historic princely seat of Alba Iulia, in
Transylvania.

6. • A new period of Romanian history began on the
day of the Union of Transylvania with
Romania (Great Union Day, Marea Unire).
• This period would eventually come to an end
with the international treaties that led up to
World War II. These ceded parts of Romania to its
neighbors. As such, they are widely seen as an
attempt to provoke the country into taking sides
and joining the war.[

7. Bibliography
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of
_Romania
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdin
and-I-king-of-Romania