Rum (disambiguation)
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Rum may refer to the following:
- Rum, a spirit made from sugar-cane by-products such as molasses or sugar cane juice.
- Rûm, the Arabic term for "Rome"; Rum or Urum in Turkish.
- Hence Sultanate of Rum, a Seljuk sultanate (conquered on Byzantium, the 'second Rome') from 1077 to 1307; later the Ottoman Rüm Province, in northern Anatolia.
Places named Rum include:
- Rùm (or Rum or Rhum), a Scottish island.
- Rum, Tyrol, a market town in Austria
- Rum Cay, an island of the Bahamas.
- Rum River, a waterway near Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Rum, Hungary, a village in Hungary.
As an acronym, RUM stands for the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.