Rum Millet
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Rūm millet, or "Roman nation", was the name of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the Ottoman Empire. Despite being subordinated within the Ottoman political system, the community maintained a certain internal autonomy.
Phanar Greek Orthodox College is a Greek minority school that was founded in the Ottoman Empire in 1454.
Rum (endonym)
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Rūm, also romanized as Roum, is a derivative of Parthian (frwm) terms, ultimately derived from Greek Ῥωμαῖοι. Both terms are endonyms of the pre-Islamic inhabitants of Anatolia, the Middle East and the Balkans and date to when those regions were parts of the Eastern Roman Empire.
A view showing several floors of an underground Rûm city in Turkey.
A Rûm architect from Konya built the Gök Medrese (Celestial Madrasa) of Sivas while it was a capital of the Sultanate of Rûm.
Abandoned Rûm churches carved into a solid stone cliff face, Cappadocia, Nevşehir/Turkey.