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Eastern Rumelia
Rumelia
also: Румелия, Eastern Roumelia
An autonomous Ottoman province in the Balkans (in present-day Bulgaria) whose 1885 unification with the Principality of Bulgaria was a live diplomatic crisis and a fixture of contemporary press coverage of the "Eastern question."
Reading notes
- Two Newspapermen §21 Rumelia
Eastern Rumelia, an autonomous Ottoman province (in present-day Bulgaria) whose 1885 unification with Bulgaria was a live diplomatic crisis and a fixture of the period's Eastern-question coverage.
- The Indian Rooster §2 Rumelia
Eastern Rumelia's 1885 unification crisis with Bulgaria was front-page news; Lokhmatov's idle armchair punditry on the subject (instead of doing chores) is the wife's chief complaint.