 The republic's military colors were fashioned "several weeks before 6 December [1917], when the parade of Moldavian troops from Bessarabia took place".These were also tricolors; on one side was written the regiment's number in silver thread, and on the other, stretching all across the flag, the letters "R M".In Transylvania, many Romanian flags were produced in anticipation of the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia.