- a variation of Rumelia.
Roumelia
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bay lies eastward of the point where the gulf contracts into a narrow strait between the "Castles of Roumelia" and "the Morea," then held by the Turks.
From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale
Meanwhile what had become of the Turkish population of the Balkans and Roumelia?
From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
We stipulated that Turkish troops, with a hostile Bulgaria to the north, and a hostile Roumelia to the south, should occupy the Balkans.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume II by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Alexander, after another fruitless attempt to mollify the czar, applied to the sultan, who appointed him as Governor-general over Eastern Roumelia for five years.
From The Story of Russia by R. Van Bergen
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