Modern Usage in Southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and The Holy Land
Some typically Grecian "Ancient Synagogal" priestly rites and hymns have survived partially to the present in the distinct church services of the Melkite and Greek Orthodox communities of the Hatay Province of Southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and the Holy Land.
Members of theses ethnocultural communities still call themselves Rûm which means "Eastern Roman" or "Asian Greek", and thus, by extension, Melkite Christian i.e. Antiochite and Jerusalemite Greek Orthodox or Greek Catholic Christian in modern Levantine Arabic- spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Northern Israel, the West Bank and the Adana and Hatay provinces of Turkey.
In that particular context, the term "Rûm" is used in preference to "Ionani" or "Yāvāni" which means "European-Greek" or Ionian in Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew.
Among the Muslim aristocracy of South Asia, the fez is known as the Rumi Topi (which means "hat of Rume or Byzantium").
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