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: