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I am excited to introduce I’m for Romania, #Im4Ro, promoting positive news about Romania on December 1st, Romania’s National Day.

I’m for Romania, #Im4Ro, use this hashtag if you share positive news, information, or good words about Romania.

1st December is Romania’s National Day!

Romanians have been long dreaming, and waiting for the Great Union.

Finally, as a result of thorough internal planning and international opportunities arising, on December 1st 1918 the National Assembly of Romanians from Transylvania and Hungary (naming representatives of Romanians living in Transylvania, Banat, Crișana and Maramureș), gathered at Alba Iulia to decreed – by unanimous vote – the Union of Transylvania with Romania (The Kingdom of Romania, comprised of Wallachia and Moldavia united since 1859). While Dobruja (since 1878), Bessarabia (March 1918) and Bucovina (November 1918) were already united with Romania. Over 100 000 Romanians travelled to Alba Iulia, at Câmpul lui Horea, Horea’s Field, to witness the Great Unification.

A (very) concise historical timeline of the events that shaped Romania:

12 000 years ago, Paleolithic Civilization of Transylvania Painted Horses on Cave Walls
4 200 BC, there was a gigantic Neolithic Fortress at Turdaș, Hunedoara, Transylvania
3000 BC left us with pottery and proof of Great Human Migration
Vestiges of Horses of the Bronze Age discovered; the “Birth of the Metal” in Transylvania and its Symbolism
2000 BC, Thracian civilization, the Getae (how the Greeks called them) and the Dacians (how the Romans knew them).

Because they believed in the immortality of the soul and were not afraid to die , Herodotus called them “the fairest and most courageous of men.”

700 BC: Greeks arrive at the Black Sea and establish Histria, Tomis (today Constanta) and Callatis (today Mangalia) in order to facilitate trades with the Getae.
70 – 44 BC: Dacians and Dacia under King Burebista who controlled the territory of modern-day Romania.

“The Getae people are wiser than all barbarians and even wiser than the Romans.”
Dion Hrisostomos (40 – 120 AD), Greek philosopher
The Legacy of the Dacian Civilization
100AD – Dacian civilization at its peak.
101–102, 105–106: Romans conquer and colonize Dacia (modern-today Romania).
Roman Dacia and until 4th century AD
106 – 271/276 AD Dacia is a Roman Province
2nd – 4th century: Christianity in Dacia, now Latin-speaking people, and Romanian liturgical language rooted in the Latin language
Archaeological proofs of Romanian Christianity and continuity in Transylvania after 2nd century AD
4th – 9th centuries AD nomadic Goths, Visigoths, Slavs, and Huns invade Dacia
10th – 12th centuries AD Hungarians invade west and central Romania
The massive, Middle-Ages immigration to Transylvania
12th – 13th century principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania are established
Life in Transylvania during the Middle-Ages. The arrival of the Teutonic Knights
Wallachia, then Moldavia and Transylvania resits the Ottoman attacks – Mircea the Elder and Vlad the Impaler, Family and Historical Ties
Under the Turkish Threat
16th century: Transylvania is under Hungarian and Ottoman authority
1600 the brief union of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania under Voivode Michael the Brave. Read more in the Horizontal Gallery of Bran Castle
1765 the Grand Principality of Transylvania was proclaimed
1856 the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia become autonomous from the Ottoman Empire
1859 Wallachia and Moldavia unite and form the United Principalities under Alexandru Ioan Cuza
1862 Cuza is confirmed as Domnitor of Romania.
1866 Carol I (German born) succeeds Alexandru Ioan Cuza, as prince of Romania.Now the union of Wallachia and Moldavia is irreversible.
1877 Romania becomes independent from the Ottoman Empire
1881 Kingdom of Romania officially proclaimed.
1914 King Carol I dies. He is succeeded by his nephew King Ferdinand I
1914 -1916 Romania tries to maintain its neutrality during WW1
1916 Romania enters WWI on the side of the Triple Entente planning to regain its lost territories (parts of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina).
1918, December 1st Great Union of all Romanian territories. Finally.