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Rumelia or
Rumeli (
Turkish:
Rumeli ("Land of the Romans" from
Rum: "Greek" [formerly"Roman"] and
El: "Land");,
Roúmeli;,
Rumeliya) is a Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern
Balkan regions of the
Ottoman Empire. "Rumeli" literally translates as "land of the Romans", in reference to the
Byzantine Empire, the former dominant power in the area. During the 11th and 12th centuries it was widely used for
Anatolia while it was gradually being conquered from the
Byzantines.
Rumelia included the ancient provinces of
Constantinople,
Thessaloniki,
Thrace,
Macedonia and
Moesia, today's central
Greece and European
Turkey, bounded to the north by
Danube, west by
Albania and south by the
Morea. The name Rumelia was ultimately applied to a province composed of central Albania and north-western Macedonia, with
Bitola for its chief town.
Owing to administrative changes effected between 1870 and 1875, the name ceased to correspond to any political division.
Eastern Rumelia was constituted as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire by the
Treaty of Berlin, 1878, but on
September 6,
1885, after a bloodless revolution, it was
united with
Bulgaria.
Today, in Turkey, the word
Trakya has mostly replaced Rumelia when referring to the part of Turkey which is in Europe (provinces of
Edirne,
Kırklareli,
Tekirdağ, and the western part of
Istanbul Province, though Rumelia remains in use in historical contexts. This region in Turkey is also referred to as
Eastern Thrace or Turkish
Thrace. In Greece, the term Ρούμελη (Rumeli) has been used since Ottoman times to refer to
Central Greece, especially when juxtaposed with Morea.
Administration
The first
Beylerbey of Rumelia was
Lala Shahin Pasha, the
lala (tutor) of
Murad I. He established the seat of his administration in
Plovdiv (Filibe, Philippopolis) in 1362.
In 1382 the capital of Rumelia was moved to
Sofia.
Further Information
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