Today September 6th, is an official holiday in Bulgaria. Bulgaria is celebrating anniversary since the unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia.
On September 5, 1885, the Principality of Bulgaria unified with the autonomous Ottoman province of Eastern Roumelia, a few years after its liberation from Ottoman yoke.
The historic proclamation was made after a march by a handful of Bulgarians from the small town of Saedinenie (nowadays Unification) to the town of Plovdiv, removing one of the gravest injustices imposed in the wake of the Berlin congress.
But it was not [...]