Административно териториално деление и погранични проблеми в Източна Румелия (1879–1885)
Administrative-territorial and Frontier Problems in Eastern Roumelia (1879–1885)

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the internal and external boundaries of Eastern Roumelia. The determination of the internal boundaries by the administrative-territorial division is considered as one of the trends of state construction in the Region after 1879. For this reason are indicated its original sources, its links to the establishment and operation of the administrative system and the electoral model, to the presence of religious-ethnic minorities and their claims, the power factors like militia, gendarmerie and police. With the aid of documents is presented the work of the two directors of internal affairs – G. Krustevich and N. Nachov – on establishing and improving the administrative-territorial division and the difficulties that appeared in connection with it. Unlike the problem of the internal boundaries, that of the external ones was part of the Treaty of Berlin and an object of international relations. It was for this reason that the leaders of Roumelia – Bogoridi and Krustevich – found it very difficult to cope with. Where one could depend on assistance from the neighbouring state – the northern frontier – the delimitation was not a destructive factor for the government, and even resulted in doing away with brigandage and ethnic separatism. Different was the problem with the southern, Ottoman-Roumelian, frontier, where the politicians of the region met with failure: incomplete territory, deformations in the administrative mechanism and confrontation with the population and the Great Powers.

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