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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.
Bulgaria, [a] officially the Republic of Bulgaria, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north.
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 ...
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 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]
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.
Lion holding a shield with a map of Greater Bulgaria (National Museum of Military History, Sofia.)Bulgarian irredentism is a term to identify the territory associated with a historical national state and a modern Bulgarian irredentist nationalist movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, which would include most of Macedonia, Thrace and Moesia.
Bulgarian troops welcomed in Strumica, April 1941. Bulgarian troops entered Yugoslavia on April 19, annexing the Western Outlands and Morava Valley on the western border with Serbia under the San Stefano Peace Treaty. In addition to the directly annexed to Bulgaria regions of Pirot and Vransko, the Germans later demanded that Bulgaria deploy ...