Hora Unirii


Hora Unirii is a poem by Vasile Alecsandri, published in 1856. The music of the song was composed by. The song is sung and danced especially on January 24, the anniversary of the day in which the Romanian United Principalities were formally united in 1859. It can very well be considered Romania's own version of the American national slogan "United We Stand".
The poem "Kënga e bashkimit" of Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, published in 1912, is a clear adaptation of Alecsandri's Hora Unirii.

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