Rum

Rûm

... or "Romans", in Arabic الرُّومُ ar-Rūm, Persian/Turkish Rum, from Middle Persian Hrom) is a generic term used at different times in Turkey and the Muslim world to refer to ethnocultural minorities such ...

Famous quotes containing the word rum:

    “There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
    As rum and true religion.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat—
    And there isn’t any call for me to shout it:
    For he will do
    As he do do
    And there’s no doing anything about it!”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)