Rum

Meaning

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

Etymology

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 Rome.