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A map of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia before the Unification. United Bulgaria – a lithograph by Nikolai Pavlovich (1835–1894). The Unification of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Съединение на България, romanized: Suedinenie na Bulgariya) was the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885.
A widely autonomous Principality of Bulgaria was created, between the Danube and the Stara Planina range, with its seat at the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Turnovo, and including Sofia. This state was to be under nominal Ottoman sovereignty but was to be ruled by a prince elected by a congress of Bulgarian notables and approved by the Powers.
The Bulgarian term "област" (oblast) is preferably translated into English as "province", in order to avoid disambiguation and distinguish from the former unit called "окръг" (okrag, translated as "district") and the term "регион" (always translated as "region"). At any rate, "district" and "region" are sometimes still used to ...
As a concession to the Yugoslav side, Bulgarian authorities agreed to the recognition of a distinct Macedonian ethnicity and language in part of their own population in the Bulgarian part of the geographic region of Macedonia. This was one of the conditions of the Bled Agreement, signed between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria on 1 August 1947. In ...
The proposed Treaty of San Stefano of March 3, 1878 provided for a self-governing Bulgarian state, [1] which comprised the geographical regions of Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia. Fearing the establishment of a large Russian client state in the Balkans, the other Great Powers , especially Great Britain and Austria-Hungary, refused to agree to the ...
Principality of Bulgaria / Княжество България Eastern Rumelia / Източна Румелия Kardzhali District and Valley of Vacha river (Tamrash Republic), returned to Ottoman Empire after Tophane act / Кърджалийско и долината на река Въча (Тъмръшко), останали в Османската империя според ...
The reason for this was because of the negative reactions of Russia and other powers that followed the unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1885, [33] and the "liberation" of the region of Macedonia from Ottoman rule. [28] Supposedly, this state would have two separate governments but a common military command in case of war. [34]
"Историческите решения в Блед" (transl. The historical decisions in Bled), Sofia, 1947 [1]. The Bled agreement (also referred to as the "Tito–Dimitrov treaty") was signed on 1 August 1947 by Georgi Dimitrov and Josip Broz Tito in Bled, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia and paved the way for a future unification of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in a new Balkan Federation.