Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia (Bulgarian: Източна Румелия, Iztochna Rumeliya; Ottoman Turkish: روم الى شرقى, Rumeli-i Şarkî; Greek: Ανατολική Ρωμυλία, Anatoliki Romylia) was an autonomous unit (Oblast in Bulgarian, vilayet in Turkish) in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and ended in 1885, when it willingly united with Bulgaria, from which state its territory is still part. Ethnic Bulgarians had an absolute majority within Eastern Rumelia, with a significant ethnic Turk and Greek population. Its capital was Plovdiv (Ottoman: Filibe, Greek: Philippopolis).
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