The economic and intellectual development of the Greeks of Eastern Rumelia was remarkable after the persecutions of 1906. The Marasleio of Philippopolis, home of the Greek boys' secondary school and the community library of the city in the period 1900-1906. Christopoulos, G. (ed), Istoria tou Ellinikou Ethnous, volume 14, Neoteros Ellinismos apo to 1881 os to 1913, Ekdotiki Athinon, Athens 1977, p. 363. © Κ. Mammonis.