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Union of Transylvania with Romania

1918 unification of the Kingdom of Romania with the region of Transylvania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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. Great Union Day, also called Unification Day, is a national holiday in Romania celebrated on 1 December. 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 Kingdom of Romania. Bessarabia and Bukovina had joined with the Kingdom of Romania earlier in 1918.

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“Union of Transylvania with Romania” enters the record as 1918 unification of the Kingdom of Romania with the region of Transylvania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Union, Transylvania and Romania can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Union, Transylvania and Romania.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “Union of Transylvania with Romania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.