Roumeli
English
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish روم ايلى.
Proper noun
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 2020, p. 33:
- In Roumeli, in particular, the Ottoman authorities recruited local militias, often made up of Orthodox Christians, to keep the bandits in check.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin 2020, p. 33: