Bulgarian territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire, 14th-19th centuries
Ottoman Bulgaria
Българските земи под османско владичество(Bulgarian) Bŭlgarskite zemi pod osmansko vladichestvo
1396–1878
Common languages
Bulgarian
Religion
Sunni Islam (official, minority) Bulgarian Orthodox Church (majority)
Demonym(s)
Bulgarian
Government
Beylerbey, Pasha, Agha, Dey
History
• Battle of Nicopolis
1396
• Treaty of Berlin (1878)
1878
Today part of
Bulgaria
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History of Bulgaria
Odrysian kingdom 460 BC – 46 AD
Roman times 46–681
Dark Ages c. 6th–7th cent.
Old Great Bulgaria 7th cent., 632–668
First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018
Christianization
Golden Age 896–927
Cometopuli dynasty 968–1018
Byzantine Bulgaria 1018–1185
Second Bulgarian Empire 1185–1396
Second Golden Age 1230–1241
Mongol invasion 1274–1300
Darman and Kudelin 1273–1291
Recovery and expansion 1300–1371
Fragmentation and fall 1371–1396
Vidin
Dobruja
Lovech
Ottoman Bulgaria 1396–1878
Resistance after 1413
National Revival 1762–1878
Early
Late
Establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate 1870
April Uprising 1876
Liberation War 1877–1878
Third Bulgarian State 1878–present
Serbo-Bulgarian War 1885
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising 1903
Balkan Wars 1912–1913
World War I 1915–1918
World War II 1941–1945
Communist era 1946–1990
Transition era since 1990
List of monarchs
Military history
Struggle for Macedonia 1893–1944
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The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, beginning in the late 14th century, with the Ottoman conquest of smaller kingdoms from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire. In the late 19th century, Bulgaria was liberated from the Ottoman Empire, and by the early 20th century it was declared independent.
The brutal suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 and the public outcry it caused across Europe led to the Constantinople Conference, where the Great Powers tabled a joint proposal for the creation of two autonomous Bulgarian vilayets, largely corresponding to the ethnic boundaries drawn a decade earlier with the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate.
The sabotage of the Conference, by either the British or the Russian Empire (depending on theory), led to the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), whereby the much smaller Principality of Bulgaria, a self-governing, but functionally independent Ottoman vassal state was created. In 1885 the Ottoman autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia unified through a bloodless coup with the Principality of Bulgaria.
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Principality of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Княжество България, romanized: Knyazhestvo Balgariya) was a vassal state under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. It...
re-establishment of the Bulgarian state under the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March 1878. The treaty forced the Ottoman Empire to give back to Bulgaria most of its...
Bulgarian Turks in Turkey. Bulgarian Turks are the descendants of Turkish settlers who entered the region after the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in...
subjugated by the Ottoman Empire. The Turks eliminated the Bulgarian system of nobility and ruling clergy, and Bulgaria remained an integral Ottoman Empire territory...
within the fold of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. During the Ottoman rule of the Balkans, Islam spread to the territories of Bulgaria, and it remains a significant...
(1914–1918). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance. The Central Powers'...
Europe, including Bulgaria, appeared in the late fourteenth century, as the peninsula gradually fell under Ottoman rule. The Ottoman Empire conquered the...
the Balkans region with an ethnic Bulgarian majority (lands that had been seized from Bulgaria and given to the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Berlin)...
actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame...
the bulk of Bulgarian forces engaged in the south, the prospect of an easy victory incited Romanian intervention against Bulgaria. The Ottoman Empire also...
called the Bulgarian National Revival, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule. It...
The demographics of the Ottoman Empire include population density, ethnicity, education level, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...
April Uprising (Bulgarian: Априлско въстание, romanized: Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April...
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officials blamed Bulgaria for the dissolution of the Balkan League, an alliance of Balkan states directed against the Ottoman Empire. Bulgarian defeat in the...
de jure independence of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Независимост на България, romanized: Nezavisimost na Bǎlgariya) from the Ottoman Empire was proclaimed on...
situated in central Bulgaria and his half brother Ivan Sratsimir holding the Vidin Tsardom. Although his struggle to repel the Ottomans differentiated him...
fell under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 resulted in the formation of the third and current Bulgarian state. Many...
Bulgarian Millet (Turkish: Bulgar Milleti) was an ethno-religious and linguistic community within the Ottoman Empire from the mid-19th to early 20th century...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian: Българска православна църква, romanized: Bûlgarska pravoslavna cûrkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Bulgarian:...
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of an autonomous Principality of Bulgaria following almost 500 years of Ottoman rule in the Bulgarian lands. Bulgarians celebrate the day the treaty was...
many regions. Bulgaria was divided into three parts on the eve of the Ottoman invasion. Despite strong Byzantine influence, Bulgarian artists and architects...
It was co-ordinated by the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee (BSCRC). Both had been parts of the Ottoman Empire, but the principality...
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