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
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Banat is a geographical and historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central and Eastern Europe. It is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania ; the western part of Banat is in northeastern Serbia ; and a small northern part lies within southeastern Hungary.
Tisza confluence with Danube at Titel
Part of the Treasure of Sânnicolau Mare in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
After the capture of Temesvár, 1552
Romanian king Carol II visits a village in the Romanian Banat, 1934.