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Rumelia or Rumeli (Turkish: Rumeli ("Land of the Romans" from Rum: "Byzantines" [formerly "Roman"] and El or İl: "Land"); Bosnian: Rumelija; Serbian: Rumelija; Macedonian: Румелија Albanian: Rumeli, Bulgarian: Румелия, transliterated: Rumeliya, Greek: Ρωμυλία, Romylía or Ρούμελη, Roúmeli) is a Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire. "Rumeli" literally translates as "land of the Romans", in reference to the Byzantine Empire (as the term "Byzantine" is a modern convention, they never referred to themselves as such, but as "Romans" - Rhomaios, in Greek), the former dominant power in the area. During the 11th and 12th centuries, it was widely used for Anatolia while it was gradually being conquered from the Byzantines. Rumelia included the ancient provinces of Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Thrace, Macedonia and Moesia, today's Bulgaria and Turkish Thrace, bounded to the north by the Danube, west by Albania and south by the Morea. The name Rumelia was ultimately applied to a province composed of central Albania and north-western Macedonia, with Bitola for its chief town.