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Romania: 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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Romania: Some countries observe a second public holiday for New Year's celebration
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Romania: Holiday since 2015. Marks the political union between Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859
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Romania: Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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Romania: 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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Romania: 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: This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievements of the labour movement
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Romania: 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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Romania: Orthodox Pentecost Sunday, also known as Holy Spirit Sunday, is observed fifty days after Orthodox Easter.
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Romania: Orthodox Pentecost Monday, also known as Holy Spirit Monday, is observed fifty days (approx. seven weeks) after Orthodox Easter.
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Romania: The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
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Romania: It is traditionally said that St. Andrew brought Christianity to Romania in the 1st Century AD
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Romania: The National day of Romania and celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918
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Romania: Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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Romania: Several countries and regions around the world extend their public holidays for Christmas beyond 25th December
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