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Eastern Rumelia
Eastern Rumelia
(,
Iztochna Rumeliya
; ,
Rumeli-i Sarkî
; ,
Anatoliki Romylia
) was an autonomous territory (
oblast
in Bulgarian,
vilayet
in Turkish) 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
, also under Ottoman suzerainty. It continued to be an Ottoman province
de jure
until 1908, when
Bulgaria declared independence
.
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