Roumeli

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish روم ايلى.

Proper noun[edit]

Roumeli

  1. (now chiefly historical) The area of the Greek mainland north of the Peloponnese; Central Greece, especially seen as a district of the Ottoman Empire.
    • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 33:
      In Roumeli, in particular, the Ottoman authorities recruited local militias, often made up of Orthodox Christians, to keep the bandits in check.
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