Iuliu Maniu was a Romanian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Union of Transylvania with Romania.
Iuliu Maniu
King Ferdinand with Maniu and generals Constantin Prezan, Gheorghe Mărdărescu, and Ștefan Panaitescu [ro] at Békéscsaba, 24 May 1919
Bust of Iuliu Maniu in Alba Iulia
Maniu's last appeal at his trial, November 11, 1947
Union of Transylvania with Romania
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, celebrated on 1 December, is a national holiday in Romania that celebrates this event. The holiday was established after the Romanian Revolution, and celebrates the unification not only of Transylvania, but also of Bessarabia and Bukovina and parts of Banat, Crișana and Maramureș with the Romanian Kingdom. Bessarabia and Bukovina had joined with the Kingdom of Romania earlier in 1918.
Romanian troops marching in Transylvania
Romanians in the Kingdom of Hungary according to Hungarian census in 1890
The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia (December 1, 1918)
First page of Transilvania newspaper from December 1918, referring to the event
![King Ferdinand with Maniu and generals Constantin Prezan, Gheorghe Mărdărescu, and Ștefan Panaitescu [ro] at Békéscsaba, 24 May 1919](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Hungarian-Romanian_War_of_1919_%28National_Military_Museum_Collection%29_03.jpg/640px-Hungarian-Romanian_War_of_1919_%28National_Military_Museum_Collection%29_03.jpg)
