Bâciyân-ı Rûm

Turkish Etymology tr ota bâciyân-ı Rûm, from tr trk-oat bâciyân-ı Rûm. Literally, 'Sisters of Sultanate of Rum Rum'. Attested in Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i ʿOsmān by Aşıkpaşazade in the 15th century. Proper noun tr historical a Turkoman (ethnonym) Turkoman female Sufi guild and a female militia organization in the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, the Ahis Ahi Brotherhood, or the Ahi Republic, and in the Anatolian beyliks Anatolian Turkic beyliks. Further reading Bertrandon de La Broquière La Voyage d'outremer Paris 1892 118 Didem Havlioglu 2017 Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History 78