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RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA ( See also: part of the See also: Balkan Peninsula which was subject to See also: Turkey
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More precisely it was the country bounded N. by See also: Bulgaria, W. by See also: Albania and S. by the Morea, or in other words the See also: ancient provinces, including Constantinople and See also: Salonica, of See also: Thrace and See also: Macedonia
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The name was ultimately applied more especially to a province composed of central Albania and western Macedonia, having See also: Monastir for its chief See also: town
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Owing to administrative changes effected between 187o and 1875, the name ceased to correspond with any See also: political division
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Eastern Rumelia was constituted an autonomous province of the See also: Turkish See also: empire by the Berlin treaty of 1878; but on the 18th of See also: September x885, after a bloodless revolution, it was See also: united with Bulgaria (q.v.)
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