Rum

(Engels)

1. (historical) An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
2. (historical) A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
3. (archaic) Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.

Etymologie (Engels)

From Seljuk Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish روم (Rum, “Rome; Byzantine Empire; central Anatolia”), from Arabic رُوم (Rūm, “Rome; Byzantine Empire”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (Hrom), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía, “Byzantine Empire”), from Latin Romani (“Romans”), from Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Roma and Rome.

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