The New Student's Reference Work/Rumelia

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Rume′lia or Roume′lia (Turkish Rum Ili, meaning Land of the Romans), an important portion of European Turkey, differing widely in area in different times, but most generally applied to the region between the Balkan Mountains and the Ægean Sea, corresponding to ancient Thrace and part of Macedonia.