100 years ago, in Alba Iulia, the delegates of Transylvania had decreed the union with Romania. The efforts of the Romanian diplomats, backed by those of King Ferdinand, the Queen Maria and the political man Ionel Bratianu, have led to the fulfillment of a dream of centuries: an independent and sovereign country in the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic space.

The first brick at the edifice of modern Romania had been laid in 1859 by the unification of the Moldova and Wallachian Principalities by the independence and incorporation of Dobrogea following the war of 1877-1878. In March 1918 the union with Bessarabia was made, then in November 1918 - union with Bucovina.

On 1 December 1918, in Alba Iulia, in front of over 100,000 Romanians gathered on the Horea Field, the Greek-Catholic bishop Iuliu Hossu read the text of the Union resolution.

The place was not chosen by chance: Alba Iulia is the historical fortress of the Romanians, the place where, in 1599, Mihai Viteazu made the first union of Wallachia with Moldavia and Transylvania. In 1918, Romania numbered 16 million inhabitants and spread over an area of 295 thousand square kilometers.