RUMELIA

'Rumelia' or 'Rumeli' (Turkish: ''Rumeli'' ("Land of the Romans" from ''Rum'': "Greek" [formerly "Roman"] and ''El'': "Land"^[1]); , ''Roúmeli''; , ''Rumeliya'') is a name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire. "Rumeli" literally translates as "land of the Romans", in reference to the Byzantine Empire, the former dominant power in the area. During the 11th and 12th centuries it was widely used for Anatolia while it was gradually being conquered from the Byzantines.
Rumelia included the ancient provinces of Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Thrace, Macedonia and Moesia, today's central Greece and European Turkey, bounded to the north by Danube, west by Albania and south by the Morea. The name Rumelia was ultimately applied to a province composed of central Albania and north-western Macedonia, with Monastir for its chief town.
Owing to administrative changes effected between 1870 and 1875, the name ceased to correspond to any political division. Eastern Rumelia was constituted as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Berlin, 1878, but on September 6, 1885, after a bloodless revolution, it was united with Bulgaria.
Today, the Turkish ''Trakya'' (Thrace) has mostly replaced Rumelia when referring to the part of Turkey which is in Europe (provinces of Edirne (Adrianople), Kırklareli, Tekirdağ, and the western part of Istanbul Province (Constantinople)), though Rumelia remains in use in historical contexts. In Greece, the term Ρούμελη (Rumeli) has been used since Ottoman times to refer to Central Greece, especially when juxtaposed with Μωριάς (Morias).

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Administration

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Administration

The first ''Beylerbey'' of Rumelia was Lala Shahin Pasha (also known as Lala Şahin Paşa or S(h)ahin Pasha), the tutor ''(lala)'' of Murad I. He established the seat of his administration in Philippopolis (Filibe) in 1362.
In 1382 the capital of Rumelia was moved to Sofia.

★ Şahabettin Pasha (Sa'd ed-din Pasha) (1436)

★ Sokollu Mehmet Paşa (Mehmed-paša Sokolović) (1551-1555)

★ Pertev Pasha (Serbian Ottoman from Herzegovina) (1555-?)

★ Yeğen Pasha (17th century)

★ Ali Pasha (1741-1822)

★ Yorgancıoğlu Pasha (1905)

See also

★ Thrace

★ Bulgarian Thrace

★ Greek Thrace

★ Turkish Thrace

References

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica - Rumelia

External links

★ Sefo'nun evi, Rumeli, Turkish Folk Music