Rūm millet (Ottoman Turkish: millet-i Rûm, lit. 'Roman nation') was the name of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community in the Ottoman Empire. Despite...

natives of Turkey and the Balkans were now categorized as the "Rum Millet" (Millet-i Rum) for taxation purposes and were allowed to continue practicing Orthodox...

dimensions: All conquered Orthodox Christians would be included in the Rum Millet (millet-i Rûm) or the "Roman nation", and enjoyed a certain autonomy. It was...

end of the 19th century. The Orthodox Christians were included into the Rum Millet. Belonging to this Orthodox community grew more important to the common...

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In the Ottoman Empire, a millet (Turkish: [millet]; Ottoman Turkish: ملت) was an independent court of law pertaining to "personal law" under which a confessional...

Ottoman Greeks were Greek Orthodox Christians who belonged to the Rum Millet (Millet-i Rum). They were concentrated in eastern Thrace (especially in and around...

conversion; even special laws were enacted to protect it from outsiders. The Rum Millet, which encompassed most Eastern Orthodox Christians, was governed by the...

Orthodox Christian, belonged to the Rum Millet (millet-i Rûm, "Roman Nation"). Although a separate Serbian millet (Sırp Milleti) was not officially recognized...

their language or nationality, were considered a single Rum Millet (millet-i Rûm), i.e. Roman millet, or nation. In contrast to Catholicism which was associated...

part of Rum millet (Greek Orthodox millet). Thus, instead of helping Christian Bulgarians maintain their customs and cultural identity, the millet system...

(under the Ottoman millet system) was recognized as the spiritual and secular head (millet-bashi) of the Orthodox subjects—the Rum Millet, or "Roman nation"...

Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels...

Byzantine Empire), which in Ottoman times formed the distinct Rum millet. The Rum millet was headed by the Greek-dominated Patriarchate of Constantinople...

power had no real authority in Constantinople being so far from Anatolia. Rum Millet Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else":...

The Ullah millet (Turkish: Ulah milleti, lit. 'Vlach millet', can be interpreted as "Aromanian nation") was a separate millet (that is, a recognized ethno-religious...

ethno-religious community under Graeco-Byzantine jurisdiction called Rum Millet. Belonging to this religious commonwealth was so important that most of...

Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1870. Drawing of a bashi-bazouk by Francis Davis Millet, 1889. An Albanian bashi-bazouk painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1860s...

(Ar-Rum). The signifier "Roman" (Rum millet, "Roman nation") was also used by the Byzantines' later Ottoman rivals, and its Turkish equivalent Rûm, "Roman"...

specific ethno-religious community under Graeco-Byzantine domination called Rum millet. Its name was derived from the Byzantine (Roman) subjects of the Ottoman...

Christians in the Balkans. The terms "kafir", "gawur", and "rûm" (the last meaning "Rum millet") were commonly used in defters (tax registries) for Orthodox...

to the Millet System of the Ottoman Empire rather than by the mother tongue. Thus, some Bulgarian-speakers were included in the Greek Rum millet and counted...

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of the Patriarch of Constantinople) within the administration of the Rum millet (i.e., the Christian community) of the Ottoman Empire. The mitre is removed...

authorities established a religious administrative community called the Rum Millet, which governed all Orthodox Christians regardless of their ethnicity...

population cannot be determined as the census followed the Ottoman millet system. Thus, "Islam Millet" or "Muslims" did not include only Turks, but all other Muslims...

began to degrade its specific social system, and especially the so-called Rum millet, through constant identification of the religious creed with ethnicity...

v t e Ottoman Greece Ethnarchy Rum Millet Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople People Ottoman Greeks Greek Muslims Phanariotes Dragomans Klephts Proestoi...

2.19% Christians 1,303,944 57.23% —Bulgar millet 1,185,146 52.02% —Rum millet 15,310 0.67% —Ermeni millet 450 0.02% —Roman Catholics 7,112 0.31% —Christian...

Vilayet Census Kaza (District) Islam millet % Bulgar & Rum millet % Ermeni millet % Roman Catholic % Yahudi millet % Muslim Roma % Non-Muslim Roma % Total...