Romania’s National Independence Day is celebrated in Bucharest today with a ceremony that will take place at the Monument to the Heroes of the Fatherland in Bucharest in front of the National Defence University in the presence of senior official Eduard Bachide, according to the National Defence Ministry (MApN), write Agerpres.

Military and religious as well as wreath-laying and flower-laying ceremonies will also take place in collaboration with the local administrations in the county seats where there are monuments dedicated to the event.

The proclamation of the state independence was the crowning of the political and diplomatic efforts of those years for the emancipation of Romania from Ottoman suzerainty.

On May 10, 1877, the motion adopted by the Assembly of Deputies and the Senate became law by its promulgation by ruler Carol I, officially confirming the emergence of the new independent state. The independence thus proclaimed was consecrated and defended on the battlefield, through the heroism and sacrifices of the Romanian army, which – between April 1877 and February 1878 – contributed decisively to the war waged against the Ottoman Empire.

Under the July 1878 Treaty of Berlin, Romania’s state independence was officially recognised, thus consolidating the path towards the formation and completion of the Romanian unitary state and the evolution towards modernisation of the country.