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    Rumelia (Ottoman Turkish: روم ايلى, romanized: Rum İli, transl. Land of the Romans; Turkish: Rumeli; Greek: Ρωμυλία) was the name of a historical region...
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    Eastern Rumelia (Bulgarian: Източна Румелия, romanized: Iztochna Rumeliya; Ottoman Turkish: روم الی شرقى‎, romanized: Rumeli-i Şarkî; Greek: Ανατολική...
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    The Eyalet of Rumeli, or Eyalet of Rumelia (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت روم ایلی, romanized: Eyālet-i Rūm-ėli), known as the Beylerbeylik of Rumeli until 1591...
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    unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885. It was co-ordinated by the Bulgarian Secret Central...
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    principalities. Later, it became part of the Ottoman province or Eyalet of Rumelia. The name Rumelia (Turkish: Rumeli) means "Land of the Romans" in Turkish, referring...
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  • eventually unite into the Association for the Defence of Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia in the Sivas Congress. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the...
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    Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an autonomous province (vilayet) in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1908; however, it was under Bulgarian control...
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    This created a much smaller principality, alongside an autonomous Eastern Rumelia within the Ottoman Empire. In practice, Bulgaria's status as an Ottoman...
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    Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Fortress and Roumeli Hissar Fortress) or Boğazkesen Fortress (literally 'strait-cutter fortress') is a medieval Ottoman...
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    domination for five centuries as part of the province or Eyalet of Rumelia. The name Rumelia (Turkish: Rumeli) means "Land of the Romans" in Turkish, referring...
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    solidified the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and the Congress of...
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    Albanian Bulgarian Greek Serbian Congress of Berlin Annexation of Eastern Rumelia Serbo-Bulgarian War Greco-Turkish War of 1897 Cretan State IMRO & Ilinden–Preobrazhenie...
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    capital of the autonomous Ottoman region of Eastern Rumelia. In 1885, Plovdiv and Eastern Rumelia joined Bulgaria. There are many preserved ruins such...
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  • Rumelia is a village in the municipality of Madzharovo, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria. Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 24, 2010 v t e...
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    Ottomans in 1382. From 1530 to 1836, Sofia was the regional capital of Rumelia Eyalet, the Ottoman Empire's key province in Europe. Bulgarian rule was...
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    Serbia and incorporated the semi-autonomous Ottoman territory of Eastern Rumelia in 1885, proclaiming itself an independent state on 5 October 1908. In...
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    corridor and constitutes what remains of the once-vast Ottoman region of Rumelia. It is currently also of specific geostrategic importance because the sea...
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    of the eyalets of Rumelia and Anatolia, and uniting them as an independent eyalet. In 1580, Bosnia, previously a district of Rumelia, became an eyalet...
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  • Census in Eastern Rumelia of 1878: Census of Eastern Rumelia in 1880: The ethnic composition of the population of Eastern Rumelia, according to the provincial...
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  • prince in 1879. In 1885 Alexander took control of the still-Ottoman Eastern Rumelia, officially under a personal union. Following Prince Alexander's abdication...
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    as Egypt's governor. In 1808, Hurshid Pasha served as the governor of Rumelia. In March 1809, he was sent to Serbia (the Sanjak of Smederevo) to repress...
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    assigned to the Western Army that was formed for the defense of Western Rumelia under the command of Birinci Ferik Ali Rıza Pasha. On 6 October, he was...
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    Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea. The term Balkan Peninsula was a synonym for Rumelia in the 19th century, the parts of Europe that were provinces of the Ottoman...
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    Demiryolu) (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman railway company operating in Rumelia (the European part of the Ottoman Empire, corresponding to the Balkan peninsula)...
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    Romanes. Zargari people, Shia Muslim Roma in Iran, who once came from Rumelia/Southern Bulgaria from the Maritsa Valley in Ottoman times and settled...
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    Republic of Bulgaria 1908–1946: Tsardom of Bulgaria (reunified with Eastern Rumelia where was a part of the  Ottoman Empire) 1878–1908: Principality of Bulgaria...
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    second part was to be an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire—Eastern Rumelia. The third and largest part—all of Macedonia and Lozengrad—were restored...
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    Empire Voivodeship of Maramureș Founding of Wallachia Founding of Moldavia Rumelia Eyalet Early Modern Times Silistra Eyalet Principality of Transylvania...
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    to 300,000 lives.[better source needed] Ottoman territories in Europe (Rumelia) were lost in the First Balkan War (1912–1913). Ottomans managed to recover...
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    by the Principality (later Kingdom) of Bulgaria on the north; Eastern Rumelia on the northeast (after the Treaty of Berlin); Edirne Vilayet on the east;...
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