Rûm (pronounced ), also transliterated as Roum or Rhum (in KoineGreek "Ρωμιοί" or "Romans", in Arabic الرُّومُ ar-Rūm, Persian/TurkishRûm, from Middle PersianRhōm), is a generic term used at different times in Muslim world to refer to:
more generally, to non-Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire or citizens of Turkey (Rûmi or Rûm in the broader sense, but that use is disappearing from the quasi-extinction of Greek communities in Izmir, Istanbul, Cappadocia, and the Black Sea coast).