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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUM , or Routs (Arab. ar-Rum), a very indefinite See also:

term in use among Mahommedans at different See also:dates for Europeans generally and for the See also:Byzantine See also:empire in particular; at one See also:time even for the Seljuk empire in See also:Asia See also:Minor, and now for Greeks inhabiting See also:Ottoman territory. When the See also:Arabs met the Byzantine Greeks, these called themselves 'Pw,See also:aloe, or See also:Romans, a See also:reminiscence of the See also:Roman See also:conquest and of the See also:founding of the new See also:Rome at See also:Byzantium. The Arabs, therefore, called them " the Rum " as a See also:race-name (already in Kor. See also:xxx. 1), their territory " the See also:land of the Rum," and the Mediterranean " the See also:Sea of the Rum." The See also:original See also:ancient Greeks they called " Varian " (See also:Ionians), the ancient Romans, " Rum " and some-times " Latiniyun " (Latins). Later, inasmuch as Muslim contact with the Byzantine Greeks was in Asia Minor, the term Rum became fixed there geographically and remained even after the conquest by the Seljuk See also:Turks, so that their territory was called the land of the See also:Seljuks of Rum. But as the Mediterranean was " the Sea of the Rum," so all peoples on its N. See also:coast were called sweepingly, " the Rum." In See also:Spain any See also:Christian slave-girl who had embraced See also:Islam was named Rumiya, and we find the See also:crew of a Genoese See also:vessel being called Romans by a Muslim traveller. The See also:crusades introduced the See also:Franks (Ifranja), and later Arabic writers recognize them and their See also:civilization on the N. See also:shore of the Mediterranean W. from Rome; so See also:Ibn Khaldun in the latter See also:part of the 14th See also:century. But See also:Rumi is still used in See also:Morocco for a Christian or See also:European in See also:general, instead of the now elsewhere commoner Ifranji. (D. B.

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