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
- Sultanate of Rûm, a Seljuk sultanate (conquered on Byzantium, the 'second Rome') from 1077 to 1307; later the Ottoman Rüm Province, in northern Anatolia
- Ar-Rum, the 30th sura of the Qur'an
Places named Rum include:
- Rùm (or Rum or Rhum), Scottish island
- Rum, Austria, Tyrolean market town
- Rum Cay, Bahamas island
- Rum, Hungary, village
- Rum Island (Tasmania), Australian island
- Rum River, waterway near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
As an acronym, RUM stands for:
- University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
- Rigid Unit Modes, phonon modes in which polyhedra are free to move by translation and/or rotation without distortion