National Holidays in Romania in 2019
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: New Year's Day
- New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
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: Day after New Year's Day
- Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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: Unification Day
- Holiday since 2015. Marks the political union between Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859
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: Martisor
- Martisor is a festival that marks traditional Romanian beginning of Spring
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: Orthodox Good Friday
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Orthodox Easter Day
- Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
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: Orthodox Easter Monday
- The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere
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: Romania Public Holiday
- Tuesday, April 30th 2019 will be a public holiday for budgetary sector employees to bridge Easter and Labour Day
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: Labour Day
- This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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: Mother's Day
- Not a public holiday, Moved in 2010 from 8 March to 1st Sunday in May
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: Father's Day
- 2nd Sunday in May. Father's Day is a celebration that honours the role of fathers
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: International Children's Day
- A new holiday since 2017. The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children's Day in 1925
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: Orthodox Pentecost
- Orthodox Pentecost Sunday, also known as Holy Spirit Sunday, is observed fifty days after Orthodox Easter.
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: Descent of the Holy Spirit
- Orthodox Pentecost Monday, also known as Holy Spirit Monday, is observed fifty days (approx. seven weeks) after Orthodox Easter.
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: St Mary's Day
- The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
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: St Mary's Day Holiday
- Public sector employees in Romania will have a four-day break, after the government decided that Friday August 16th would be a non-working day in public institutions.
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: Feast of St. Andrew
- It is traditionally said that St. Andrew brought Christianity to Romania in the 1st Century AD
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: National Day
- The National day of Romania and celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918
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: Christmas Day
- Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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: Second day of Christmas
- Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December
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