Bulgarian unification

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Bulgarian unification

Declaration of the Unification - lithograph by Franz Jaschke (1862-1910)
Native name	Съединение
Date	18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1885
Location	Bulgaria
Participants	Principality of Bulgaria Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee
Outcome	Unification between Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria Beginning of the Serbo-Bulgarian war Beginning of the Bulgarian Crisis

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.^[1][2] It was co-ordinated by the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee (BSCRC). Both had been parts of the Ottoman Empire, but the principality had functioned de facto independently whilst the Rumelian province was autonomous and had an Ottoman presence. The unification was accomplished after revolts in Eastern Rumelian towns, followed by a coup on 18 September [O.S. 6 September] 1885 supported by the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I. The BSCRC, formed by Zahari Stoyanov, began actively popularizing the idea of unification by means of the press and public demonstrations in the spring of 1885.