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.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus Rum is mentioned in Quran; there's Sura (Chapter) by this name, Nr. 30, & it named after Byzantines.
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus but the usage of word Rum, applied on Europeans, without specification. as general name for Europeans in the,>
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus >Middle ages. NB: Med. Sea in Middle Ages its name was: Baher Al-Rum ( Rum's Sea) ; While Baltic Sea its name>
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus was Baher Al-Frinjah ( Varangian Sea).
@Archatgs @Ballandalus The Sea of Azov was similarly described on a 12thC Syrian map...
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus NB: Al-Frinjah الفرنجة in Arabic is one word for :Franks, Varangians, Western Europeans specially French, so>
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus>the differentiation comes from reading the context carefully, eg: Medieval Arab historians usually used word>
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus> Al-Frinjah الفرنجة when they wrote about the Crusaders. It is so elastic expression as: Rum.
.@caitlinrgreen @Ballandalus Is there any evidence that Phoenicians had contact with Hebrides?
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