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Originally Posted by ward
[I] ...Rumi referred to Byzantines early in Ottoman history but the word also meant Ottomans later on.
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RUMES WERE INHABITANTS OF ANCIENT TRACIA, LATER ROMANIA, AND THEIR NATURALS ROMANIS, TO WHOM THE TURKS CALLED RUMELI AND WE CALLED RUMES (Diogo do Couto 1542-1616).
In this picture, painted by an anonimous Portuguese traveller in the XVI century, Rumes as depicted inhabited the straight of Meca and Baçorá.
According to Gaspar Correia (1495-1561), they used various weapons, namely wide and long swords, and they were also great shooters.
Fernando
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