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In OTL's 20th century Second Balkan War, Romania conquered Bulgarian ruled Dobruja, and retained it until WWII when Bulgaria won it back permanently.

What if Romania sought this territory in the 19th century.

You can choose any time for the Romanians to make this move (for instance, perhaps Romania could have claimed it in the Russo-Turkish War or at Congress of Berlin), but it seems to me that a more interesting scenario would be if Romania attacks to seize the territory in 1885, using the Bulgarian unification with Eastern Rumelia as the excuse for seeking territorial "compensation". This could be either before, or after, the Serbians attacked Bulgaria.

How would the situation play out from this point? Could Bulgaria hold all its old and new territory in the circumstances of the time? Could a Serbo-Romanian coalition win border-lands from Bulgaria? Or perhaps a Serbo-Romanian-Ottoman coalition?

How would great powers react and intervene in this situation?
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