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Rūm
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Rum (name).
Rūm (Arabic: روم, collective; singulative: روميRūmī; plural: أروامʼArwām; Persian: رومRum or رومیانRumiyān, singular رومیRumi; Turkish: Rum, Ottoman Turkish: روم), ultimately derived from Greek Ῥωμαῖοι (Rhomaioi, literally 'Romans'), is the exonym of the indigenous pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East and the Balkans and date to when those regions were parts of the Eastern Roman Empire.