Rum (disambiguation)

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Rum may refer to the following:

• Rum, a spirit made from sugar-cane by-products such as molasses or sugar cane juice
• Rûm was the term by which Muslims referred to the Christian Europeans in general, and the Eastern Romans (Byzantines) in particular in the Middle Ages. Deriving from this:
  • Sultanate of Rûm, a Seljuk sultanate, established on conquered Byzantine territory from 1077 to 1307; later the Ottoman Rüm Province, in northern Anatolia.
  • Rumelia, the "land of the Romans", the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Ar-Rum, "the Romans", the 30th sura of the Qur'an.

Places named Rum include:

• Rùm (or Rum or Rhum), Scottish island
• Rum, Austria, Tyrolean market town
• Rum Cay, Bahamas island
• Rum, Hungary, village
• Rum Island (Tasmania), Australian island
• Rum River, waterway near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

As an acronym, RUM stands for:

• University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
• Rigid Unit Modes, phonon modes in which polyhedra are free to move by translation and/or rotation without distortion

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