RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA (

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• TURKISH

Turkish Rumili, " the

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• LAND

land of the

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• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans," i.e. the

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• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East

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• ROMAN

Roman or

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• BYZANTINE

Byzantine

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• EMPIRE

empire)  , a name commonly used, from the 15th century onwards, to denote that part of the Balkan Peninsula which was subject to Turkey . More precisely it was the country bounded N. by Bulgaria, W. by Albania and S. by the Morea, or in other words the ancient provinces, including Constantinople and Salonica, of Thrace and Macedonia . The name was ultimately applied more especially to a province composed of central Albania and western Macedonia, having Monastir for its chief town . Owing to administrative changes effected between 187o and 1875, the name ceased to correspond with any political division . Eastern Rumelia was constituted an autonomous province of the Turkish empire by the Berlin treaty of 1878; but on the 18th of September x885, after a bloodless revolution, it was united with Bulgaria (q.v.) .