Roumeli
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish روم ايلى.
Proper noun
[edit]Roumeli
- (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.