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What do Romanians celebrate on December 1?
At the end of the First World War, a Greater Romania emerged as the country significantly expanded its size and population. This was the result of the 1918 Great Union (Marea Unire), celebrated on December 1, the country's National Day.
Andrei Chirileasa · Journalist
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At the end of the First World War, a Greater Romania emerged as the country significantly expanded its size and population. This was the result of the 1918 Great Union (Marea Unire), celebrated on December 1, the country's National Day.
December 1 is the celebration of the 1918 unification of the provinces of Transylvania, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș, Bessarabia, and Bucovina, where Romanians were a majority population, with the Kingdom of Romania, made up at the time from Wallachia and Moldavia.
