On this day, the Romanians celebrate the “Great Union, that being the unification of the Union Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania in 1918. The event was highly publicized, with about 100,000 people attending the National Assembly in Alba Iulia. The declaration of the union was unanimously agreed upon by over 1,000 elected officials, and laid out the fundamental guidelines of governance in the new state. The Transylvanians were guaranteed racial equality, religious freedom, freedom of speech and press, as well as universal suffrage for men and women.
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