Rum (endonym)
AUTONYM
Rum, Anatolia; Rüm; Roum; Ruem; Ar-Rūm; Rūm; Rumes (Portuguese); Rum (term); Al-Rūm; Rume; Rûmi; Rûm
Rūm ( , collective; singulative: Rūmī ; plural: Arwām ; Rum or Rumiyān, singular Rumi; or , singular ), also romanized as Roum, is a derivative of the Middle Persian term hrōm, itself ultimately derived from Greek Ῥώμη. The latter was an endonym of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East, and the Balkans, dating to when those regions were parts of the Eastern Roman Empire.