@@LookBackHistory Question: would you be interested in making a video about recreation of Poland? That's another topic largely simplified, in this case as "Reappeared and disappeared, nothing to see here". And the topic of ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe is also quite remarkable.
As a Bulgarian, I really appreciate videos on Bulgarian history as I feel like the country, and the Balkans in general are quite overshadowed compared to events in Western Europe/Russia
Hard to say overshadowed when the balkans caused ww1 and the yugoslav wars basically overshadowed every other major conflict that ran during the same time along with the attention modern greece and turkey get for their hostile attitudes
@@vasil.kamdzhalov bosnia and kerz. Kosovo albania montenegro republic of macedonia bulgaria romania croatia. Just because you have convinced yourself nobody knows anything about you doesnt make it true
@@stereomachine disagree everytime another conflict breaks out its big news especially with serbia allied to russia the U.S public may be ignorant but the government watches your area closely
Legally speaking; the unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1885 was de jure a personal union: Eastern Rumelia legally continued to exist as an autonomous Ottoman province, it was 'just' that the same person who was the Bulgarian Prince happened to be, at the same time, the Governor-General of the Province at the same time in a personal union. This was a state of legal affairs that existed until formal independence in 1908. Of course, de facto, the two territories were to all intents and purposes united (Eastern Rumelia for example sent representatives to the Bulgarian national assembly), and Bulgaria's tributary status to the Sublime Porte was itself little more than nominal, but it's an interesting state of affairs nonetheless.
A good presentation with some mistakes, though. It was not Bulgaria who broke free from the Ottoman Empire the last, it was Albania in 1913. The population of Macedonia was predominantly Bulgarian, and not that diverse as suggested here. The San Stefano treaty was not possible, as Russia and Austria had a pre-war agreement acc. to which Bulgaria within such borders will not be created.
Very interesting video! I knew about the Bulgarian unification but always thought it's something the Ottomans allowed. Never thought not only the Ottomans, but also the great powers were against it, kudos to the Bulgarians! You mentioned in this video, and I remember hearing that Romania had 2 proposal for unions, one from Bulgaria mentioned in the video and another from Hungary after WW1 (but not sure if before or after the Hungarian-Romanian War). Why did the union with Bulgaria fail? And what happened in the Hungarian proposal for union after WW1?
Not sure why the Romano-Bulgar Kingdom/Empire didn't really work out. But the Romano-Hungarian Kingdom didn't really work out because the people had a 50/50 opinion which ended up not happening. Some Romanians wanted it because by that they could have more influence on the politics in Vienna, in Hungary they thought by that they can still/may have a brief control over Transylvania and if the Kingdom split they would end up having it. Some didn't want Romanians to be the rulers of Hungary nor did Romanians want to work out along side Hungarians. Surely there's more to this but yea, just some info until he makes a video up those two topics
With Bulgaria because of external factors like the great powers not liking that idea. With Hungary because internal elements didn't like the idea of the guys who tried to magyarize (i.e. assimilate in a more forceful manner) the romanian population of Transylvania and what the union might mean for Transylvania.
Thanks sir video is good. Before the trident period, Bulgaria was a Great Christian Empire that culturally and spiritually influenced the entire Slavic world, giving them an alphabet, a language, relics and many customs. And today it is a state of the empire of the spirit with one of the richest cultures
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About the conflict with Serbia, it was short but some details are interesting. First Russia was really mad about the unification, they broke diplomaticc relations and recalled all help that was there ( this is important ). When the unificaiton happened, bulgarian army was send to the new south border expecting turkish retaliation but to surprise of our foreign minister, who asked the serbian one what was the reason for all that movement of troops and are they to declare war ( he said no ), wae was declared and the wanted to take all east provinces of Bulgaria including the capital. The situation was dire, as no troops from Bulgaria were on the border of near the capital, few troops were there are were used for as much diversion as possible. After the russians recalled all personel from Bulgaria the highest military rank in Bulgaria was captain while Serbia had a full fledged professional army as the serbian population didnt want to fight. To save the unification all troops had to move from the south, this happened with roman legion style marching. This would mean for 3-4 days to reach the capital while marching day and night for up to 500km and immidiately enter combat. Most combat in the end happened to be bayonet charges as most rifles broke as they were second hand by Russia. High morale is what saved Bulgaria, if Serbia took all the west provinces this geopolitically would have meant that they have the sole influence to expand in Macedonia.
Very good video, man. I know it's a touchy subject and occasionally you get a touchy commentators (we bulgarians are not good at diplomacy), but you did very well. Cheers!
Technically since 1842 there were plenty of enthic maps of the Balkans, with slight exagurations in Macedonia around Albania and maybe to the north with Serbia there can be found mistakes but in the end 50 maps were known to be made from all around Europe and even the US, the fist in 1842 was from a guy from Czechia. All found bulgarians to be numerous and encompassed fully into San Stefano Bulgaria, there wouldnt have been a reason for Bulgaria to wage wars, if it remained like this. In all the wars later Bulgarian politics were dictated on returning those lands back, none more expansionist ideas werent considered whatsoever.
@@vasil.kamdzhalov there would be a reason for Greece to wage war against the Bulgarians in Greek Macedonia especially Thessaloniki which had only 2,000 Bulgarians compared to 22,000 Greeks and 44,000 Greek speaking Jews
OT: 2:15 Because I have studied Arabic was able to partially recognise some of the script such as "Bulgaristan" on the top of the map and Aylati which I suppose is derived from the Arabic of ayla, which is family or perhaps community and the kilometre scale legend on the top left of the map reading 1/1,500,000. Modern day Plovdiv is marked as Felibe in the map in the second (from right) green zone and Burgas (if I am not mistaken) on the fifth part next to the sea. It is interesting to see how Turkish was so close to Arabic at the time before they changed their alphabet. Nevertheless, very interesting video!
Yes! I can't read it myself but Ottoman Turkish was written in Arabic script for centuries before Mustafa Kemal brought about the use of the Latin alphabet.
Eastern Rumelia (Bulgarian: Источна Румелия, Turkish: روم الى شرقى; Greek: Ανατολική Ρωμυλία) was an autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and de facto ended in 1885, when it was united with the Principality of Bulgaria. Ethnic Bulgarians formed a majority of the population in Eastern Rumelia, but there were significant Turkish and Greek minorities. Its capital was Plovdiv. The official languages of Eastern Rumelia were: Bulgarian, Greek and Ottoman Turkish. 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇹🇷 ____________ The province encompasses the territory between the Balkan Mountains, the Rhodope Mountains and Strandzha, a region known to all its inhabitants as Northern Thrace. The artificial name, ‘‘Eastern Rumelia’‘, was given to the province on the insistence of the British delegates to the Congress of Berlin: the Ottoman notion of Rumelia refers to all European regions that were under the Roman Empire.🌍 _____________ After a bloodless revolution on 6 September 1885, the province was annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria. The province was nominally under Ottoman suzerainty until Bulgaria became de jure independent in 1908. 6 September, Unification Day, is a national holiday in Bulgaria. ⚜ _____________ According to a British report before the 1877-1878 war, the non-Muslim population of Eastern Rumelia was about 60%, a proportion that grew due to the flight and emigration of Muslims during and after the war. The 1878 census show a population of 815,946 people- 573,231 Bulgarians (70.29%), 174,759 Muslims (21.43%), 42,516 Greeks (5.21%), 19,524 Roma, 4,177 Jews, and 1,306 Armenians. The results of the first Regional Assembly elections of 17 October 1879 show a predominantly Bulgarian character: The Greek inhabitants of Eastern Rumelia were concentrated on the coast, where they were strong in numbers, and certain cities in the interior such as Plovdiv (known in Greek as Philippopolis), where they formed a substantial minority. Most of the Greek population of the region was exchanged with Bulgarians from the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Thrace in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and WW1. 📖.
Awesome video can the next video be how Bulgaria got its modern borders. And the rise and expansion of the Ottoman Empire from is an Ghazi to Sultan Murad III pls keep up the great work peace.
Bulgaria was never fully united , in a way this was the reason for the second balkan war Knyaz (prince) Alexander was exiled due personal task bestowed to him (Being against unification)
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب It didnt. In short, old bulgarians or bulgars come from central Asia. Last it is speculated to be Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, it is agrued if they were turkic by origin of iranic but addopted stuff from both either way. Eventually they move to the Balkans around 680, the current leader in that time was Khan/Khanasubigi ( people like to argue for the precise title ) Asparuh, he negotiates and alliance and the creation of a state called Bulgaria with 7 slavic tribes who live in that land. Byzantines dont like this and send an army, this army is defeated and the emperor felt forced to recognize the state in 681. Since then the name of the state never changed, it was called always Bulgaria and is the oldest by this mark in Europe and countries constantly changed lands and names, Bulgaria was occupied 2 times, the last time was by the Ottomans in 1396. We were occupied by the Ottomans for almost 500 years, Russia wanted to control Constantinopole so slowly fought back the Ottomans, we were the last to be helped when we were the closest geographically. Russia hoped to gain a favour with the bulgarians for the act and hoped that people will feel just slavic and not destinct so they could integrate us. That wasnt the case, they freed us in 1878, in 1885 they were already mad at us and cut diplomatic relations. They didnt create us, we were there and had rebellions, the last was big enough to be seen by Europe.
bro in all those lands lived mostly bulgarians and all those wars,was wars for unite bulgarian peoples,didnt make up hihi,they are still persecuted and did not want give them rights of minority in North macedonia,but we are 1400 years old country full of wars,and now want some peace,but is not easy,wars are all arond us again.Healt and happynes :)
It would be great for Bulgaria to unite with Romania because although they came from the Volga River and intermixed with the natives being Thracian, they are considered part of the Thracian blood like us Romanians who separated to be Dacians. Yet Dacians ancestors are Thracian and we are all Thracian in Romania and Bulgaria in which that union should and must be called Thracia!
Because I counted myself here, we did not come from the Volga River, but part of us went there and created Volga Bulgaria. This Turkic nonsense that was in the textbooks of the Soviet era does not have a single scientific proof. Nice day.
Bulgarians are mostly of Thracian blood. Actually modern day Romanians and Bulgarians are almost genetically indistinguishable as we are both Thracian. The slight genetic difference between Bulgarians and Romanians is due to Bulgar DNA. Bulgarians and Romanians have the same level as Slavic genes which isn’t very much to begin with. Also bulgars did not come from the Volga. Old great Bulgaria was in modern day Ukraine; Crimea and the caucuses. However one of the sims of kubrat went north to establish Volga Bulgaria
The Bulgars WENT to the Volga river after the split of Kubrat's Old Bulgaria, they did not come from there. Both Volga and Danubian Bulgaria existed paralel to each other until the Mongol invasion.
The West intervening in Balkan affairs single handedly prevented the independence and rise of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece, and functioned to instead hurt these cultures in the long term in the name of British and French influence
Albania gained independence as a result of the Balkan Wars without first gaining autonomy. Bulgaria was an autonomous Ottoman vassal for about thirty years before declaring independence in 1908. Pedantic of me, I know haha.
"Slavic rebels" - Bulgarian rebels. Or "fully united" - Bulgaria was divided in 5 parts, Rumelia was only one of 5. Why you even bother when not researching in advance...
@@LookBackHistory In Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78 there were only Bulgarians among the rebels in the battles in Bulgaria. Trying to generalizes and extend period, while we are looking at 1886 and in general 1877-78 is not serious,more over you are taking out the context, I just don't know if it is by purpose or accident.
There is another factor that ended up with Bulgaria's independence and expansion in the long term: the Bulgarian Exarchate. This was an effort to create an autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which didn't answer to the Greek-dominated clergy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was the first instance of ethno-phyletism, a heresy in the Orthodox Christian world, where the Church appears as a necessary tool in the nationalistic sentiment of the country's role and expansionist agenda. Similarly, how the Russian Orthodox Church operates in Russia's foreign policy in the contemporary period in the war against Ukraine.
Europes stupid tradition of forbidding others might is so annoying. Like as a german, french and british didnt accept our might over europe even though we had much larger populations and bigger industriel power. Or Russia, why was russia forbidden of power in the balkans? I wouldnt mind that
well its all politics. im more angry that they didint let Bulgaria have most of its Bulgarian speaking lands, that would have prevented dozens of conflicts.
Because for centuries the great powers of Europe had to play a careful game of moderating each others' power and influence. It was always about balances and counterbalances.
Just see the destiny of the states that stood against bulgaria unification😂😂😂germany is not a sovreign state since 1945,austrian empire dont exist,russia is a demolished state since 1917,serbia is a dwarf country after being enormous yugoslavia,greece is the worst economy in EU turkish empire dont exist and more .....as we say in Bulgaria God is bulgarian and nothing remains without answer😂😂😂😂you will see unite bulgaria in a few years remember my word i know what i am talking about💪😎🥋🐃💲🎉
Let's make one thing clear: Bulgaria united not only without any help from Russia, but in spite of rabid OPPOSITION from Russia. The Russians were our friend only in 1877-78, never again.
What is this childish/offended girlfriend view on someone who bled for you many times. "They were our friends, but never again" Why is Southern Dobrudja and the south of Bulgaria still Bulgarian after WW2m
@@guccikip3055 One question . Is the population in North Macedonia want to unified with Bulgaria but the governements of NMacedonia/Bulgaria are putting a stop to it ?
San Stefano was not revised , it was just a smokescreen for the Bulgarians. Russia had an agreement with A-H before the war in 1877 even started. Macedonia was and is 80% Bulgarian and the rest are Albanians everybody in the balkans knows this especially the Greeks. Britain's role in their support of unification is downplayed in the video which is disappointing
To add to that, the very first sentence in the video is wrong - Bulgaria isn't the last state in the Balkans to gain autonomy from the Ottomans. That would be Albania.
The South Slavic tribal groups moved south and southwest from their Pripet homeland, eventually entering the Byzantine-controlled Balkan Peninsula as either allies of or refugees from the invading Turkic Avars during the second half of the sixth century. Their search for a new, permanent homeland proved successful. Today their descendants solidly inhabit virtually all of the northwestern, central, and southeastern regions of the Balkans. Turks comprise a third ethnic component of the Balkan population. Although today numerically small-a little over 1 million people (about 2 percent of the total population) they have played a role in shaping the history of the Balkans far beyond their numbers. In late antiquity the rolling plains of the Danube and Prut rivers in the Balkans' northeast served Turkic tribes from the Eurasian steppes as an open door into the heart of the peninsula and the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire. Huns and related tribes swept through the Balkans in the fifth and sixth centuries, followed by the Avars and their allies in the sixth and seventh. Among these latter were the Bulgars, who established a state south of the Danube. Unlike the Avars, whose settlements in the Balkans proved transitory, the Bulgar state persisted in the face of concerted Byzantine pressures. By the ninth century the Bulgars were challenging the Byzantine Empire for political hegemony in the Balkans, but by that time they also were well on the way toward ethnic assimilation into their Slavic-speaking subject population. The conversion of the Turkic Bulgar ruling elite to Orthodox Chris-tianity at midcentury opened the gate to their rapid and total Slavic assimilation. Within a hundred years of the Bulgar conversion, most traces of their Turkic origins had disappeared, except for their name-the Bulgars had been transformed into Slavic Bulgarians Oğuz, Pecheneg, and Cuman Turkic tribes appeared in the Balkans between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Most of them eventually suffered an ethnic fate similar to the Bulgars and left little lasting impression, although the Gagauz Turks of Bessarabia, a region lying east of the Prut River (now known as Moldova), and some Turks living today in the eastern Balkans may be direct ethnic descendants of those medieval Turkic interlopers. Additionally, the Ottoman Turks' five-century rule over most of the Balkans established numerous scattered enclaves of Turkish- speaking groups throughout much of the southern portion of the peninsula, with a heavy concentration in the southeastern region of ancient Thrace.
Of what I know Pechenegs left the region to Russia and Cumans after devastation by the Mongols in Wallachian and Moldavian plains they left for Hungary. The Gagauz are not one of those people, they were settled in the region by the Ottoman Empire, now their region is more little was not always like that. If I'm not wrong they settled there by the early XVIth Century
@@InAeternumRomaMater The Pechenegs and Cumans were eventually settled mostly in the Balkans and in Hungary, with much smaller groups heading in other directions (the Rus', Asia Minor, etc). The origin of the Gagauz is generally quite open to debate, due to their unusual Turkic dialect and Orthodox religion, but considering their genetic profile (almost identical to Bulgarians and Romanians), it would seem quite more likely now that they're locals who adopted a Turkic language rather than the reverse.
Sure, chief, listen to Tito's propaganda. It has worked out well for you guys. I mean the only people in Europe who believe you aren't Bulgarian are you. That says a lot. I've spoken to multiple Macedonians(regulars) and we all get along great and we do not need a translator. Not to mention Greek and Ottoman historians who all prove you ARE indeed Bulgarian. If it wasn't for NATO and European politics, I believe we would've already annexed Macedonia.
Its nice that you cover multiple events from the balkans. This region is usually overshadowed by more recent events like WW2 and yugoslav wars.
I find the Balkans fascinating.
@@LookBackHistory Make a video on the Greco Turkish war!
@@thebalkanhistorian.3205 too short
@@LookBackHistory HOW GREATER SOMALIA GOT DIVIDED PLS
@@LookBackHistory Question: would you be interested in making a video about recreation of Poland? That's another topic largely simplified, in this case as "Reappeared and disappeared, nothing to see here". And the topic of ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe is also quite remarkable.
As a Bulgarian, I really appreciate videos on Bulgarian history as I feel like the country, and the Balkans in general are quite overshadowed compared to events in Western Europe/Russia
Hard to say overshadowed when the balkans caused ww1 and the yugoslav wars basically overshadowed every other major conflict that ran during the same time along with the attention modern greece and turkey get for their hostile attitudes
@@UnholyWrath3277 How many times have you heard of Bulgaria or any Balkan state apart of Serbia and Greece?
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@@vasil.kamdzhalov bosnia and kerz. Kosovo albania montenegro republic of macedonia bulgaria romania croatia. Just because you have convinced yourself nobody knows anything about you doesnt make it true
@@stereomachine disagree everytime another conflict breaks out its big news especially with serbia allied to russia the U.S public may be ignorant but the government watches your area closely
Legally speaking; the unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia in 1885 was de jure a personal union: Eastern Rumelia legally continued to exist as an autonomous Ottoman province, it was 'just' that the same person who was the Bulgarian Prince happened to be, at the same time, the Governor-General of the Province at the same time in a personal union. This was a state of legal affairs that existed until formal independence in 1908.
Of course, de facto, the two territories were to all intents and purposes united (Eastern Rumelia for example sent representatives to the Bulgarian national assembly), and Bulgaria's tributary status to the Sublime Porte was itself little more than nominal, but it's an interesting state of affairs nonetheless.
Nice a video about Bulgaria!
Glad you liked it!
@@LookBackHistory keep up the good content man!
A good presentation with some mistakes, though.
It was not Bulgaria who broke free from the Ottoman Empire the last, it was Albania in 1913.
The population of Macedonia was predominantly Bulgarian, and not that diverse as suggested here.
The San Stefano treaty was not possible, as Russia and Austria had a pre-war agreement acc. to which Bulgaria within such borders will not be created.
Very interesting video! I knew about the Bulgarian unification but always thought it's something the Ottomans allowed. Never thought not only the Ottomans, but also the great powers were against it, kudos to the Bulgarians! You mentioned in this video, and I remember hearing that Romania had 2 proposal for unions, one from Bulgaria mentioned in the video and another from Hungary after WW1 (but not sure if before or after the Hungarian-Romanian War). Why did the union with Bulgaria fail? And what happened in the Hungarian proposal for union after WW1?
Not sure why the Romano-Bulgar Kingdom/Empire didn't really work out. But the Romano-Hungarian Kingdom didn't really work out because the people had a 50/50 opinion which ended up not happening. Some Romanians wanted it because by that they could have more influence on the politics in Vienna, in Hungary they thought by that they can still/may have a brief control over Transylvania and if the Kingdom split they would end up having it. Some didn't want Romanians to be the rulers of Hungary nor did Romanians want to work out along side Hungarians. Surely there's more to this but yea, just some info until he makes a video up those two topics
With Bulgaria because of external factors like the great powers not liking that idea.
With Hungary because internal elements didn't like the idea of the guys who tried to magyarize (i.e. assimilate in a more forceful manner) the romanian population of Transylvania and what the union might mean for Transylvania.
Thanks sir video is good. Before the trident period, Bulgaria was a Great Christian Empire that culturally and spiritually influenced the entire Slavic world, giving them an alphabet, a language, relics and many customs. And today it is a state of the empire of the spirit with one of the richest cultures
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Great video! Thank you so much for creating a video about my country! I like your style of videos, keep up the good work!
Nice video! I always hoped someone to make a video about our unification.
About the conflict with Serbia, it was short but some details are interesting. First Russia was really mad about the unification, they broke diplomaticc relations and recalled all help that was there ( this is important ). When the unificaiton happened, bulgarian army was send to the new south border expecting turkish retaliation but to surprise of our foreign minister, who asked the serbian one what was the reason for all that movement of troops and are they to declare war ( he said no ), wae was declared and the wanted to take all east provinces of Bulgaria including the capital. The situation was dire, as no troops from Bulgaria were on the border of near the capital, few troops were there are were used for as much diversion as possible. After the russians recalled all personel from Bulgaria the highest military rank in Bulgaria was captain while Serbia had a full fledged professional army as the serbian population didnt want to fight. To save the unification all troops had to move from the south, this happened with roman legion style marching. This would mean for 3-4 days to reach the capital while marching day and night for up to 500km and immidiately enter combat. Most combat in the end happened to be bayonet charges as most rifles broke as they were second hand by Russia. High morale is what saved Bulgaria, if Serbia took all the west provinces this geopolitically would have meant that they have the sole influence to expand in Macedonia.
You have history wrong. Also Serbia DID expand and take Macedonia. Macedonia was a part in Yugoslavia.
@@froglifes6829 What exactly you didnt get, These events are later, the video is about 1885 and around it, Serbia gets Macedonia in 1912
@@froglifes6829 bro mixed up 1913 and 1885
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Very good video, man. I know it's a touchy subject and occasionally you get a touchy commentators (we bulgarians are not good at diplomacy), but you did very well. Cheers!
I love this channel. The art, maps, and topic choices are so great
As Bulgarian I didn't know that Bulgaria and Romania wanted an unification. For the first time I hear such thing.
Yes it is known. Stambolov also wanted a political union with the Ottoman Empire.
This channel is extremely underated
San Stefano Bulgaria looks blessed and cursed at the same time.
Only blessed
Technically since 1842 there were plenty of enthic maps of the Balkans, with slight exagurations in Macedonia around Albania and maybe to the north with Serbia there can be found mistakes but in the end 50 maps were known to be made from all around Europe and even the US, the fist in 1842 was from a guy from Czechia. All found bulgarians to be numerous and encompassed fully into San Stefano Bulgaria, there wouldnt have been a reason for Bulgaria to wage wars, if it remained like this. In all the wars later Bulgarian politics were dictated on returning those lands back, none more expansionist ideas werent considered whatsoever.
@@vasil.kamdzhalov there would be a reason for Greece to wage war against the Bulgarians in Greek Macedonia especially Thessaloniki which had only 2,000 Bulgarians compared to 22,000 Greeks and 44,000 Greek speaking Jews
@@thebalkanhistorian.3205 I looked at your channel and saw in the description that you want to make videos. Is it still true, because im interested.
@@Veriox22 yes in time
great overview, I learned so much
OT: 2:15 Because I have studied Arabic was able to partially recognise some of the script such as "Bulgaristan" on the top of the map and Aylati which I suppose is derived from the Arabic of ayla, which is family or perhaps community and the kilometre scale legend on the top left of the map reading 1/1,500,000. Modern day Plovdiv is marked as Felibe in the map in the second (from right) green zone and Burgas (if I am not mistaken) on the fifth part next to the sea. It is interesting to see how Turkish was so close to Arabic at the time before they changed their alphabet. Nevertheless, very interesting video!
Yes! I can't read it myself but Ottoman Turkish was written in Arabic script for centuries before Mustafa Kemal brought about the use of the Latin alphabet.
I like that
Eastern Rumelia (Bulgarian: Источна Румелия, Turkish: روم الى شرقى; Greek: Ανατολική Ρωμυλία) was an autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and de facto ended in 1885, when it was united with the Principality of Bulgaria. Ethnic Bulgarians formed a majority of the population in Eastern Rumelia, but there were significant Turkish and Greek minorities. Its capital was Plovdiv. The official languages of Eastern Rumelia were: Bulgarian, Greek and Ottoman Turkish. 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇹🇷
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The province encompasses the territory between the Balkan Mountains, the Rhodope Mountains and Strandzha, a region known to all its inhabitants as Northern Thrace. The artificial name, ‘‘Eastern Rumelia’‘, was given to the province on the insistence of the British delegates to the Congress of Berlin: the Ottoman notion of Rumelia refers to all European regions that were under the Roman Empire.🌍
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After a bloodless revolution on 6 September 1885, the province was annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria. The province was nominally under Ottoman suzerainty until Bulgaria became de jure independent in 1908. 6 September, Unification Day, is a national holiday in Bulgaria. ⚜
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According to a British report before the 1877-1878 war, the non-Muslim population of Eastern Rumelia was about 60%, a proportion that grew due to the flight and emigration of Muslims during and after the war. The 1878 census show a population of 815,946 people- 573,231 Bulgarians (70.29%), 174,759 Muslims (21.43%), 42,516 Greeks (5.21%), 19,524 Roma, 4,177 Jews, and 1,306 Armenians. The results of the first Regional Assembly elections of 17 October 1879 show a predominantly Bulgarian character: The Greek inhabitants of Eastern Rumelia were concentrated on the coast, where they were strong in numbers, and certain cities in the interior such as Plovdiv (known in Greek as Philippopolis), where they formed a substantial minority. Most of the Greek population of the region was exchanged with Bulgarians from the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Thrace in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and WW1. 📖.
Awesome video can the next video be how Bulgaria got its modern borders. And the rise and expansion of the Ottoman Empire from is an Ghazi to Sultan Murad III pls keep up the great work peace.
Bulgaria was never fully united , in a way this was the reason for the second balkan war
Knyaz (prince) Alexander was exiled due personal task bestowed to him (Being against unification)
How do you draw your maps?
"the russo-turkish war" there was like 13 of them
Well there were so details skipped but for short video it is good.
Why Russia made the country of Bulgaria
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب It didnt. In short, old bulgarians or bulgars come from central Asia. Last it is speculated to be Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, it is agrued if they were turkic by origin of iranic but addopted stuff from both either way. Eventually they move to the Balkans around 680, the current leader in that time was Khan/Khanasubigi ( people like to argue for the precise title ) Asparuh, he negotiates and alliance and the creation of a state called Bulgaria with 7 slavic tribes who live in that land. Byzantines dont like this and send an army, this army is defeated and the emperor felt forced to recognize the state in 681. Since then the name of the state never changed, it was called always Bulgaria and is the oldest by this mark in Europe and countries constantly changed lands and names, Bulgaria was occupied 2 times, the last time was by the Ottomans in 1396. We were occupied by the Ottomans for almost 500 years, Russia wanted to control Constantinopole so slowly fought back the Ottomans, we were the last to be helped when we were the closest geographically. Russia hoped to gain a favour with the bulgarians for the act and hoped that people will feel just slavic and not destinct so they could integrate us. That wasnt the case, they freed us in 1878, in 1885 they were already mad at us and cut diplomatic relations. They didnt create us, we were there and had rebellions, the last was big enough to be seen by Europe.
bro in all those lands lived mostly bulgarians and all those wars,was wars for unite bulgarian peoples,didnt make up hihi,they are still persecuted and did not want give them rights of minority in North macedonia,but we are 1400 years old country full of wars,and now want some peace,but is not easy,wars are all arond us again.Healt and happynes :)
Uniune personală cu România? Sună interesant! Poate nu este târziu....
That Bulgaria looks amazing, sad that it didn't make it
It would be great for Bulgaria to unite with Romania because although they came from the Volga River and intermixed with the natives being Thracian, they are considered part of the Thracian blood like us Romanians who separated to be Dacians. Yet Dacians ancestors are Thracian and we are all Thracian in Romania and Bulgaria in which that union should and must be called Thracia!
Because I counted myself here, we did not come from the Volga River, but part of us went there and created Volga Bulgaria. This Turkic nonsense that was in the textbooks of the Soviet era does not have a single scientific proof. Nice day.
Bulgarians are mostly of Thracian blood. Actually modern day Romanians and Bulgarians are almost genetically indistinguishable as we are both Thracian. The slight genetic difference between Bulgarians and Romanians is due to Bulgar DNA. Bulgarians and Romanians have the same level as Slavic genes which isn’t very much to begin with.
Also bulgars did not come from the Volga. Old great Bulgaria was in modern day Ukraine; Crimea and the caucuses. However one of the sims of kubrat went north to establish Volga Bulgaria
The Bulgars WENT to the Volga river after the split of Kubrat's Old Bulgaria, they did not come from there. Both Volga and Danubian Bulgaria existed paralel to each other until the Mongol invasion.
The West intervening in Balkan affairs single handedly prevented the independence and rise of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece, and functioned to instead hurt these cultures in the long term in the name of British and French influence
0:00 it was Albania, actually
Albania gained independence as a result of the Balkan Wars without first gaining autonomy. Bulgaria was an autonomous Ottoman vassal for about thirty years before declaring independence in 1908.
Pedantic of me, I know haha.
@@LookBackHistory fair enough, the difference between autonomy and independence is important lol
@@amn9433 I'm glad you think so! But I'm also glad you asked so I could clarify!
why does this guy sound like the guy from Toptenz?
Please do Serbia next.
"Slavic rebels" - Bulgarian rebels. Or "fully united" - Bulgaria was divided in 5 parts, Rumelia was only one of 5. Why you even bother when not researching in advance...
Slavs rebelling against the Ottomans in the 1870s included Bulgarians as well as people in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and elsewhere in the Balkans.
@@LookBackHistory In Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78 there were only Bulgarians among the rebels in the battles in Bulgaria. Trying to generalizes and extend period, while we are looking at 1886 and in general 1877-78 is not serious,more over you are taking out the context, I just don't know if it is by purpose or accident.
There is another factor that ended up with Bulgaria's independence and expansion in the long term: the Bulgarian Exarchate. This was an effort to create an autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which didn't answer to the Greek-dominated clergy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was the first instance of ethno-phyletism, a heresy in the Orthodox Christian world, where the Church appears as a necessary tool in the nationalistic sentiment of the country's role and expansionist agenda.
Similarly, how the Russian Orthodox Church operates in Russia's foreign policy in the contemporary period in the war against Ukraine.
Europes stupid tradition of forbidding others might is so annoying. Like as a german, french and british didnt accept our might over europe even though we had much larger populations and bigger industriel power. Or Russia, why was russia forbidden of power in the balkans? I wouldnt mind that
well its all politics. im more angry that they didint let Bulgaria have most of its Bulgarian speaking lands, that would have prevented dozens of conflicts.
„Because anyone else having power over me is bad“
-The Great Powers
Because for centuries the great powers of Europe had to play a careful game of moderating each others' power and influence. It was always about balances and counterbalances.
@@shatterfox5198 And the balkans has always been a shit show for power balance.
And actually is not understandable why Bulgaria was splited? Who did it? From 1978 to 1885
Just see the destiny of the states that stood against bulgaria unification😂😂😂germany is not a sovreign state since 1945,austrian empire dont exist,russia is a demolished state since 1917,serbia is a dwarf country after being enormous yugoslavia,greece is the worst economy in EU turkish empire dont exist and more .....as we say in Bulgaria God is bulgarian and nothing remains without answer😂😂😂😂you will see unite bulgaria in a few years remember my word i know what i am talking about💪😎🥋🐃💲🎉
Can we have the balkan wars Next?
which ones? the first? the second? the third?
I would say the first and second balkan wars
Let's make one thing clear: Bulgaria united not only without any help from Russia, but in spite of rabid OPPOSITION from Russia. The Russians were our friend only in 1877-78, never again.
What is this childish/offended girlfriend view on someone who bled for you many times. "They were our friends, but never again" Why is Southern Dobrudja and the south of Bulgaria still Bulgarian after WW2m
Bulgaria have parts from romania for example Dobrodea!!! Dobrodgea was part of Bulgaria!!!!
5% greeks in rumelia is almost nothing xD
That's like 20,000 Greeks... That's a a lot of people
@@olefante380 on large scale thats still nothing. 5 out of 100 people.
Like 5 greeks 20 turks and 75 bulgarians. 5 vs 75 is nothing
And?
most of the black sea coast use to be greek around 100 years ago
@@nuphhrffe875 cool
Just to correct you, Bulgaria NEVER fully united
What ? How ?
@@TheWolverine01He might be talking about Macedonia.
@@CMitchell808 interesting. Thanks for that answer
@@TheWolverine01 yes, we lost a lot of land but the only land/thing we still claim is to be reunited with our brothers in "North Macedonia"
@@guccikip3055 One question . Is the population in North Macedonia want to unified with Bulgaria but the governements of NMacedonia/Bulgaria are putting a stop to it ?
Hopefully Bulgarians will stop smoking so much one day
Fourth comment.
San Stefano was not revised , it was just a smokescreen for the Bulgarians. Russia had an agreement with A-H before the war in 1877 even started. Macedonia was and is 80% Bulgarian and the rest are Albanians everybody in the balkans knows this especially the Greeks. Britain's role in their support of unification is downplayed in the video which is disappointing
To add to that, the very first sentence in the video is wrong - Bulgaria isn't the last state in the Balkans to gain autonomy from the Ottomans. That would be Albania.
Albania gained independence without first gaining autonomy.
Who gave you the right to call us Bulgarians? We are Macedonians, not Bulgarians. Don't care what your history says, ours is right.
@@DacLMK your ancestors who fought for the freedom of Bulgaria
@@DacLMK и ако ще спорим , хайде да си говорим на нашия си език а ? Сакаш ли
How Bulgaria unite?
It didn't.
how about the serbian revolution
The South Slavic tribal groups moved south and southwest from their Pripet homeland, eventually entering the Byzantine-controlled Balkan Peninsula as either allies of or refugees from the invading Turkic Avars during the second half of the sixth century. Their search for a new, permanent homeland proved successful. Today their descendants solidly inhabit virtually all of the northwestern, central, and southeastern regions of the Balkans.
Turks comprise a third ethnic component of the Balkan population. Although today numerically small-a little over 1 million people (about 2 percent of the total population) they have played a role in shaping the history of the Balkans far beyond their numbers.
In late antiquity the rolling plains of the Danube and Prut rivers in the Balkans' northeast served Turkic tribes from the Eurasian steppes as an open door into the heart of the peninsula and the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire. Huns and related tribes swept through the Balkans in the fifth and sixth centuries, followed by the Avars and their allies in the sixth and seventh. Among these latter were the Bulgars, who established a state south of the Danube. Unlike the Avars, whose settlements in the Balkans proved transitory, the Bulgar state persisted in the face of concerted Byzantine pressures. By the ninth century the Bulgars were challenging the Byzantine Empire for political hegemony in the Balkans, but by that time they also were well on the way toward ethnic assimilation into their Slavic-speaking subject population. The conversion of the Turkic Bulgar ruling elite to Orthodox Chris-tianity at midcentury opened the gate to their rapid and total Slavic assimilation. Within a hundred years of the Bulgar conversion, most traces of their Turkic origins had disappeared, except for their name-the Bulgars had been transformed into Slavic Bulgarians
Oğuz, Pecheneg, and Cuman Turkic tribes appeared in the Balkans between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Most of them eventually suffered an ethnic fate similar to the Bulgars and left little lasting impression, although the Gagauz Turks of Bessarabia, a region lying east of the Prut River (now known as Moldova), and some Turks living today in the eastern Balkans may be direct ethnic descendants of those medieval Turkic interlopers. Additionally, the Ottoman Turks' five-century rule over most of the Balkans established numerous scattered enclaves of Turkish- speaking groups throughout much of the southern portion of the peninsula, with a heavy concentration in the southeastern region of ancient Thrace.
Of what I know Pechenegs left the region to Russia and Cumans after devastation by the Mongols in Wallachian and Moldavian plains they left for Hungary. The Gagauz are not one of those people, they were settled in the region by the Ottoman Empire, now their region is more little was not always like that. If I'm not wrong they settled there by the early XVIth Century
Пак ли си тук бре боклук?
@@InAeternumRomaMater The Pechenegs and Cumans were eventually settled mostly in the Balkans and in Hungary, with much smaller groups heading in other directions (the Rus', Asia Minor, etc).
The origin of the Gagauz is generally quite open to debate, due to their unusual Turkic dialect and Orthodox religion, but considering their genetic profile (almost identical to Bulgarians and Romanians), it would seem quite more likely now that they're locals who adopted a Turkic language rather than the reverse.
You are 1300ish years late to include this in a 19th century history video
The Bulgars weren’t Turkic but Iranic. Their original homeland corresponds with modern day Tajikistan and Northern Afghanistan.
Macedonia isnt Bulgarian!
It was in the past. Now it’s not.
Yes it is. Go read a history book that isn't made by your communist government.
@@FreshVito_bg it was also yugoslav, serbian, greek, ottoman, byzantine, and roman in the past. whats your point?
@@samraosmanovska4077 It was mostly populated by ethnic Bulgarians.
Sure, chief, listen to Tito's propaganda. It has worked out well for you guys. I mean the only people in Europe who believe you aren't Bulgarian are you. That says a lot. I've spoken to multiple Macedonians(regulars) and we all get along great and we do not need a translator. Not to mention Greek and Ottoman historians who all prove you ARE indeed Bulgarian. If it wasn't for NATO and European politics, I believe we would've already annexed Macedonia.
Please do history of Bongolia next
Bongolia is my favorite country.
Where is that country?
Russia Liberated Balkans
Only to replace the Ottoman Empire.