Eastern Rumelia (Bulgarian:Източна Румелия, Iztochna Rumeliya; Ottoman Turkish:روم الى شرقى‎, Rumeli-i Şarkî; Greek:Ανατολική Ρωμυλία, Anatoliki Romylia) was an autonomous territory (oblast in Bulgarian, vilayet in Turkish) in the Ottoman Empire, created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and de facto ended in 1885, when it was united with the principality of Bulgaria, also under Ottoman suzerainty. It continued to be an Ottoman province de jure until 1908, when Bulgaria declared independence.