Well today is December 1, Romania’s big national holiday where this country celebrates its (brief) union in 1918 – not even 100 years ago!
Woke up shocked to see the main Google page had the logo above.
Actually today is a little bittersweet. In 1918, the union all of the various Romanian-speaking lands, which is what this day commemorates, did not last long.
Today all of Bessarabia is now the separate nation of the Republic of Moldova, which has its own fair share of problems.
Northern Bucovina, including where thousands of Romanians (still) live, became part of Ukraine. A southern stretch of Dobrogea is now inside Bulgaria.
Transylvania itself briefly was re-joined to Hungary during World War 2.
All in all, quite a lot of changes in less than 100 years. As a wiser person than I once noted, “Every national day celebrated in Europe is a day of mourning for someone else” and clearly that can be said about Romania’s big day as well.
Still, I got to give them credit for getting out there in the blustery, cold winds lo these 92 years ago and doing something which had literally never been done before – the (albeit brief) union of all Romanian-speaking peoples under one flag.
On a personal note, while the weather is definitely cold today and it is winter, it is far, far warmer than any December 1 I can remember. Usually there are blizzards and Arctic winds for the politicians to have to deal with when giving their speeches.
Happy Birthday Romania!
ла мулць ань, Румыния!
LA MULTI ANI ROMANIA!
All Things Romania 
It was indeed a warm 1 of December. Unfortunatly.
The weather robbed our politicians of the traditional cold 1 of december they were used to.
The traditional 1 of december is much prettier – seing a politician tring to give a speach in a blizzard is somehow heartwarming and gives un hope. I have no ideea why ( not true ).
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HI ! I really read with a lot of interes your blog. Prietenul meu incearca sa invete si el romana, el fiind spaniol, deja se descurca bine…I’ve recommended him your blog :)
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why do you keep spelling romanian stuff using the slavic alphabet?be ditched that houndreads of years ago.I’m romanian and I barely know how to read that.In fact I wouldn’t know at all if I didn’t listen to the russian pseudolesbian couple t.a.tu as a teen:))
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Mihai Viteazul did it before, for even a shorter period (1 year). It ended in 1601 with his assassination by one of the mercenary generals who fought along him.
He managed to unite Țara Româneasca, Moldova and Transilvania under one flag, by kicking ass left & right: Ottoman turks, Magyars.
The history page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_the_Brave
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The weather’s great for a shot of tzuica :)
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I’ve just found your blog, from a link to a link at a link :) Wonder what do you do for a living in Romania.
It appears our president is not in Romania today. You’re definitely more Romanian than him.
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The Dobrogea part was not initially Romanian as it was taken during the Second Balcanic war from Bulgaria. There were some agreements linked to territorial claims, Romania got in and
I don’t remember about any real encounter between the armies, but at the end the Silistra region was attributed to Romania.
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Google US (or perhaps just the default Google) has updated their logo for December 1st, celebrating Rosa Park’s refusal “to move”: http://bit.ly/hPckPa
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Joey, you should use http://google.ro :)
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I think that Google must’ve detected your Romanian IP address, because for us in the US it was the normal Google logo all day.
Though still pretty cool. I find your blog interesting, cheers!
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