Rum (disambiguation)
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Rum may refer to the following:
Places named Rum include:
As an acronym, RUM stands for:
- RumRumRum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation. The distillate, a clear liquid, is then usually aged in oak barrels...
, a spirit made from sugar-cane by-products such as molasses or sugar cane juice - RûmRûmRûm, also Roum or Rhum , an indefinite term used at different times in the Muslim world to refer to the Balkans and Anatolia generally, and for the Byzantine Empire in particular, for the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm in Asia Minor, and referring to Greeks living outside of Greece or non-muslims...
, a variant of "Rome", 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 are:- Sultanate of RûmSultanate of RûmThe Sultanate of Rum , also known as the Anatolian Seljuk State , was a Turkic state centered in in Anatolia, with capitals first at İznik and then at Konya. Since the court of the sultanate was highly mobile, cities like Kayseri and Sivas also functioned at times as capitals...
, a Seljuk sultanate, established on conquered Byzantine territory from 1077 to 1307; later the Rûm Province (Ottoman Rüm Province), in northern Anatolia - RumeliaRumeliaRumelia was an historical region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe...
, the "land of the Romans", the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire - Ar-RumAr-RumSurat Ar-Rum is the 30th sura of the Qur'an with 60 ayat.The surah begins by noting the recent defeat of the Romans by the Persians. It in turn calls Muslims to look forward to the victory it prophesies of the Emperor Heraclius' Christians over the Persian Zoroastrians...
, "the Romans", the 30th sura of the Qur'an - GreeksGreeksThe Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
living in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey (for example, the Greeks of Istanbul)
- Sultanate of Rûm
Places named Rum include:
- RùmRùmRùm , a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum) is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland...
(or Rum or Rhum), Scottish island - Rum, AustriaRum, AustriaRum is a market town located in Tyrol, Austria, on the eastern border of Innsbruck in the administrative district of Innsbruck-Land....
, Tyrolean market town - Rum, HungaryRum, HungaryRum is a village in Vas county, Hungary.- External links :*...
, village - Rum Island (Tasmania)Rum Island (Tasmania)Rum Island is a granite island, with an area of 13.5 ha, just south of Preservation Island in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Preservation Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south-west of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group...
, Australian island - Rum CayRum CayRum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas. Lat.: N23 42' 30" - Long.: W 74 50' 00" - Size: 30 Sq. mlsRum Cay is 20 miles southwest of San Salvador Island, has many rolling hills that rises to about 120 feet . Christopher Columbus called it Santa Maria de la Concepción. The island is...
, Bahamas island - Rum RiverRum RiverThe Rum River is a slow, meandering channel that connects Minnesota's Mille Lacs Lake with the Mississippi River. It runs for through the farming communities of Onamia, Milaca, Princeton, Cambridge, and Isanti before ending at the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka, roughly 20 miles northwest of downtown...
, waterway near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
As an acronym, RUM stands for:
- University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezUniversity of Puerto Rico at MayagüezThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez in Spanish , is a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant state university located in the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico...
- Rigid unit modesRigid Unit ModesRigid unit modes represent a class of lattice vibrations or phonons that exist in network materials such as quartz, cristobalite or zirconium tungstate. Network materials can be described as three-dimensional networks of polyhedral groups of atoms such as SiO4 tetrahedra or TiO6 octahedra...
, phonon modes in which polyhedra are free to move by translation and/or rotation without distortion