Its nice that you cover multiple events from the balkans. This region is usually overshadowed by more recent events like WW2 and yugoslav wars.

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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

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.

Great video! Thank you so much for creating a video about my country! I like your style of videos, keep up the good work!

I clicked on this video on kind of a whim, and honestly wasn't expecting much. But man, this video was excellent. Concise, informative,interesting, and well animated. It reminds me of Ten Minute History/History Matters' old long-form content before he had to cut back. I watched several other videos of yours and they were all fascinating and as well made. You have earned a sub my friend, and I want it down on the record that I was here at 26k, because this channel is going to be huge one day. Your videos are excellent, simply put

San Stefano Bulgaria looks blessed and cursed at the same time.

I love this channel. The art, maps, and topic choices are so great

Nice video! I always hoped someone to make a video about our unification.

great overview, I learned so much

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

Nice a video about Bulgaria!

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

This channel is extremely underated

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

As Bulgarian I didn't know that Bulgaria and Romania wanted an unification. For the first time I hear such thing.

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!

How do you draw your maps?

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!

"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...

Well there were so details skipped but for short video it is good.

"the russo-turkish war" there was like 13 of them

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)

That Bulgaria looks amazing, sad that it didn't make it

Uniune personală cu România? Sună interesant! Poate nu este târziu....

0:00 it was Albania, actually

Just to correct you, Bulgaria NEVER fully united

Please do Serbia next.

why does this guy sound like the guy from Toptenz?

Can we have the balkan wars Next?

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.

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 :)

And actually is not understandable why Bulgaria was splited? Who did it? From 1978 to 1885

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

Bulgaria have parts from romania for example Dobrodea!!! Dobrodgea was part of Bulgaria!!!!

how did it unite? it didnt.

Eastern Rumelia had mostly Greeks not Bulgarians and Turks

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

Fourth comment.

5% greeks in rumelia is almost nothing xD

how about the serbian revolution

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💪😎🥋🐃💲🎉

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.

How Bulgaria unite? It didn't.

Macedonia isnt Bulgarian!

Please do history of Bongolia next

Russia Liberated Balkans