Today, the Great Union has an important meaning in Romania, and it is commemorated in the Great Union Day, the national day of the country, every 1 December.[4] The centenary of the Great Union on 1 December 2018 was widely celebrated in Romania, with military parades at cities like Alba Iulia or Bucharest to which many people (up to 550,000, 100,000 of them in Alba Iulia alone), including the President of RomaniaKlaus Iohannis, attended.[5] It was also celebrated in Moldova, where more than 100 localities and 3 districts declared unification with Romania.[6][7]