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Rumelia

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Rumelia [ruːˈmiːlɪə]
n
(Historical Terms) 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


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The guard replied, "Should I travel to Rumelia and Russia and Persia and India in search of each of the men, Agha?
Edirne and Constantinople were, after all, "European" capitals; and Rumelia, in the Balkans, was (along with Anatolia) the central core of the empire and the source of much of its wealth and many of its officials.
00 First US combat casualty, a Marine of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force killed in ground assault on the Rumelia oil field in southern Iraq.
 
 
 
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