Rumelia

or Rou·me·li·a

[ roo-mee-lee-uh, -meel-yuh ]

noun

1. a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
2. Eastern, a former autonomous province within this division: later became S Bulgaria.

Rumelia

/ ruːˈmiːlɪə /

noun

1. history the possessions of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan peninsula: including Macedonia, Albania, Thrace, and an autonomous province ( Eastern Rumelia ) ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria

Example Sentences

Too often they end in Eastern Rumelia.

From The New Yorker

Liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, Plovdiv became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, before being folded into modern-day Bulgaria.

From New York Times

The two castles of the Dardanelles par excellence are Chanak-Kalehsi, Sultanieh-Kalehsi, or the Old Castle of Anatolia, and Kilid-Bahr, or the Old Castle of Rumelia, which were long but erroneously identified with Sestos and Abydos now located farther to the north.

From Project Gutenberg

In the history of the Church we find them mentioned in one breath with the Paulicians and other heretical sects which were transplanted in their tens of thousands from Asia Minor to the Greek empire and settled especially in Rumelia, near Adrianople and Philippopolis.

From Project Gutenberg

The threatened breach with Russia had been avoided by Metternich’s influence on the tsar Alexander; the death of Ali of Iannina had set free the army of Khurshid Pasha, who now, as seraskier of Rumelia, was charged with the task of reducing the Morea.

From Project Gutenberg