Editing Alba Iulia (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
At the end of World War I, representatives of the Romanian population of Transylvania, the [[1918 Romanian National Assembly election|National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary]], gathered in Alba Iulia on 1 December 1918 during the so-called [[Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia]] to proclaim the [[Union of Transylvania with Romania|Union of Transylvania]] with the [[Kingdom of Romania]]. The representatives of the [[Transylvanian Saxons]] decided to join this declaration on 8 January 1919.

In 1922, [[Ferdinand I of Romania]] was symbolically crowned [[King of Romania]] in Alba Iulia. In October 2012, at the 90th anniversary of King Ferdinand's coronation, his great-granddaughter [[Princess Margarita of Romania]] visited Alba Iulia to commemorate the event.