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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: 'Greece' in Turkish
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In article <5328o1$mf5@oden.abc.se>, Kjell Rehnstroem <m9548@abc.se> wrote:
>gnhbos@aol.com (GnhBos) wrote:

>>"Rum" is short for, "Room Orthodox", referring to the religious sect,
>>"Greek Orthodox". The irony is this, our sect, does not get along with 
>>Rome on theological issues.

>>In Arabic, I may add, we are known as Room Orthodox, too.

	This is most likely from what the Byzantines called themselves: 
_Romaioi_ ("Romans", of course); they considered themselves successors of 
the Roman Empire.

>Yunan probably comes from Ionia, one of the earlier Greek
>civilizations.

	More properly, Greeks who had settled on the western shores of 
Anatolia. 
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