NATIONAL DAY OF ROMANIA or GREAT UNION DAY occurring on DECEMBER 1, is the national holiday of ROMANIA.
   It commemorates the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in ALBA IULIA, which declared the Union of TRANSYLVANIA with ROMANIA.
 This holiday was set after the ROMANIAN REVOLUTION (1989) and it marks the unification of TRANSYLVANIA, but also of the provinces of BESSARABIA and BUKOVINA with the Romanian Kingdom, in 1918.
   Every year, an annual military parade on Constitution Square in BUCHAREST is held in honor of the occasion. A parade is also held in the city of ALBA IULIA (i.s.).