See also:

• RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA (Turkish Rumili, " the land of the Romans," i.e. the East Roman or Byzantine empire)

RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA (See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish Rumili, " the See also:

• LAND

land of the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans," i.e. the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• ROMAN

Roman or See also:

• BYZANTINE

Byzantine See also:

• EMPIRE

empire)  , a name commonly used, from the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century onwards, to denote that See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• BALKAN

Balkan See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula which was subject to See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey . More precisely it was the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country bounded N. by See also:

• BULGARIA
• BULGARIA, EASTERN

Bulgaria, W. by See also:

• ALBANIA

Albania and S. by the Morea, or in other words the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient provinces, including See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople and See also:

• SALONICA, SALONIKA

Salonica, of See also:

• THRACE

Thrace and See also:

• MACEDONIA

Macedonia . The name was ultimately applied more especially to a See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province composed of central Albania and western Macedonia, having See also:

• MONASTIR, or BITOLIA

Monastir for its See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TOWN

town . Owing to administrative changes effected between 187o and 1875, the name ceased to correspond with any See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division . Eastern See also:

• RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA (Turkish Rumili, " the land of the Romans," i.e. the East Roman or Byzantine empire)

Rumelia was constituted an autonomous province of the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• EMPIRE

empire by the See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin treaty of 1878; but on the 18th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September x885, after a bloodless revolution, it was See also:

• UNITED

united with Bulgaria (q.v.) .