Unification Day

So today is an official holiday, Unification Day.  Today is the day that, in 1885,  Southern Bulgaria, called Eastern Rumelia at the time, became united with North Bulgaria and won it's freedom from the Ottoman Empire.  Northern Bulgaria was an independent entity as of 1878 due to a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire where Russia was victorious.  However Eastern Rumelia still belonged to the Ottomans as an Ottoman province.  This was called The Treaty of Berlin.    Well, the Bulgarian citizens didn't think this was very fair and on Feb. 10, 1885 Eastern Rumelia revolted against the Ottomans.  The end result was the part of B that had been under Ottoman rule, the Southern part, joined Northern B as being Independent.  I asked my neighbors this morning about today and they equate these happenings to the Civil War; The United States (North and South) became united and Bulgaria (North and South) became united.  B also has another Independence Day, I guess this is more of a day when the 2 parts were united then an actual Independence Day, on September 22.  Of course more on that later!  Love and hugs from here and hoping things in Texas don't get that out of control!  Say it aint so Peyton!!