Comfortable Nice Union Day, Romania!
This Doodle honors Romania’s Nice Union Day, or Ziua Marii Uniri, in remembrance of the unification of Transylvania, Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș with the Kingdom of Romania on this date in 1918.
This yr marks the 30th commemoration of the selection of this date for the nation’s public event, which occurred in 1990.
Represented within the wonderful arts of the Doodle is the blue, yellow and crimson tricolor flag of Romania. The banner’s hues date again to the Ottoman kingdoms of Moldavia and Walachia that got here collectively to border Romania in 1858.
The 2 kingdoms waved flags obtained from outdated pennants. The flag of Moldova was blue and featured a bull’s head, whereas that of Walachia was yellow with a hen. Walachia additionally used a maritime insignia that highlighted every of the three colours that fly throughout the nation at this time.
The primary model of the superior Romanian flag appeared in 1848, and after totally different cycles, the nation acquired the present plan with authority in 1989.
