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| | Station Information - Rumelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Rumelia (or Roumelia) (in Turkish Rumili, the East Roman or Byzantine Empire), a name commonly used, from the 15th century onwards, to denote the part of the Balkan Peninsula subject to Turkey. |
 | | More precisely it was the country bounded North by Bulgaria, West by Albania and South by the Morea, or in other words the ancient provinces, including Constantinople and Thessaloniki, of Thrace and Macedonia. |
 | | Eastern Rumelia was constituted an autonomous province of the Turkish empire by the Berlin treaty of 1878, but on the September 18, 1885, after a bloodless revolution, it was united with Bulgaria. |
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