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    Eastern Rumelia (Bulgarian: Източна Румелия, romanized: Iztochna Rumeliya; Ottoman Turkish: روم الی شرقى‎, romanized: Rumeli-i Şarkî; Greek: Ανατολική...
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    Rumelia (Ottoman Turkish: روم ايلى, romanized: Rum İli, transl. Land of the Romans; Turkish: Rumeli; Greek: Ρωμυλία) was the name of a historical region...
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    of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885. It was co-ordinated by the Bulgarian Secret...
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    the capital of the autonomous Ottoman region of Eastern Rumelia. In 1885, Plovdiv and Eastern Rumelia joined Bulgaria. There are many preserved ruins...
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  • sanjaks. Census in Eastern Rumelia of 1878: Census of Eastern Rumelia in 1880: The ethnic composition of the population of Eastern Rumelia, according to the...
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    vassal state was created. In 1885 the Ottoman autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia unified through a bloodless coup with the Principality of Bulgaria...
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    The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت روم ایلی, romanized: Eyālet-i Rūm-ėli), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591...
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    Bulgarian Turks (category Middle Eastern diaspora in Bulgaria)
    establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria and the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia, the Turkish population in the Bulgarian lands started migrating to...
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  • prince in 1879. In 1885 Alexander took control of the still-Ottoman Eastern Rumelia, officially under a personal union. Following Prince Alexander's abdication...
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    territories within the large Ottoman-ruled region known as Rumelia, comprising Eastern Rumelia, Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace. The First Balkan War had...
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    Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria was made a semi-independent principality, Eastern Rumelia became a special administration, and the region of Macedonia was returned...
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    from Ottoman rule in 1878, Stara Zagora became part of autonomous Eastern Rumelia as a department centre before the two Bulgarian states finally merged...
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    This created a much smaller principality, alongside an autonomous Eastern Rumelia within the Ottoman Empire. In practice, Bulgaria's status as an Ottoman...
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    new Slavic state: the northern and eastern parts to become principalities as before (Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia), though with different governors; and...
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  • country into several parts. It separated the autonomous region of Eastern Rumelia from Bulgaria and Plovdiv became its capital. In three-month the Ottoman...
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    bounded by the Principality (later Kingdom) of Bulgaria on the north; Eastern Rumelia on the northeast (after the Treaty of Berlin); Edirne Vilayet on the...
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    in three – the Principality of Bulgaria, the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia, and Macedonia, which remained under Ottoman control. In the early...
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    second part was to be an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire—Eastern Rumelia The third and largest part—all of the Macedonia and Lozengrad—were...
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    southern territories under Ottoman control, Macedonia and the autonomous Eastern Rumelia. Also, Bosnia and Herzegovina were transferred to Austria-Hungary....
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  • Anna of Halych Irene Doukaina Laskarina Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene Sarah-Theodora Elizabeth of Bosnia with her daughter Dragana Nemanic Marie Louise...
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    a Christian Prince; annexed to Greece during the First Balkan War Eastern Rumelia (Doğu Rumeli), 1878–1885: established by the Treaty of Berlin on 13...
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    It solidified the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) and the Congress...
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    42,073 km2. The Ottoman Empire created the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia in Northern Thrace in 1878. The region was annexed by the Principality...
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    nahiya) were carved out of it to create the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia, with a total area of 32,978 km2. The province unified peacefully with...
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    Alexander of Battenberg (category Governors-General of Eastern Rumelia)
    conflict with Russia that made him popular in Bulgaria. Unification with Eastern Rumelia was achieved and recognised by the powers in 1885. A coup carried out...
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  • Empire's favour. Bulgaria was divided into two states (Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia), as it was feared[by whom?] that a single state would be susceptible...
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    Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an autonomous province (vilayet) in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1908; however, it was under Bulgarian control...
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    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (category Governors-General of Eastern Rumelia)
    decision to convert his infant son, Prince Boris, from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Orthodoxy. However, this earned him the animosity of his Catholic Austrian...
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  • Russia Jewish Autonomous Oblast Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union Eastern Rumelia (referred by this name in Bulgarian, one of its official languages)...
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    their rival aspirations to the provinces of Ottoman-controlled Rumelia (Eastern Rumelia, Thrace and Macedonia) subsided somewhat after the mid-19th-century...
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