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HISTORY or Southern Dobrudja highlighted in yellow. ]] At the beginning of the modern era, Southern Dobruja had a mixed population of Bulgarians and Turks with several smaller minorities, including Gagauz , Crimean Tatars and Romanians . At the beginning of the 20th Century, there were about 77% Turks and Tatars, 20% Bulgarians and 2.1% (or about 6,000) Romanians. Southern Dobruja was part of the autonomous Bulgarian principality from the time of the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878 until the Balkan Wars . After the defeat of Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War , the region was incorporated to Romania under the 1913 Treaty Of Bucharest . Romania ruled Southern Dobruja until 1940 settling tens of thousands of Aromanians from Macedonia and Northern Greece , as well as Romanians from Wallachia in the region. On 7 September 1940 Southern Dobruja was restored to Bulgaria under the Treaty Of Craiova . The treaty was followed by an obligatory Population Exchange : about 110,000 Romanians were forced to leave Southern Dobruja, whereas 77,000 Bulgarians had to leave northern Dobruja. A few hundred Romanians and Aromanians still live here to this day. SEE ALSO |
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