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Urum is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand people who inhabit a few villages in the Southeastern Ukraine and in diaspora communities worldwide. The Urum language is often considered a variant of the Crimean Tatar language.The name Urum is derived from Rûm (Rome) the term for the Byzantine Empire in the Muslim world. The Ottoman Empire used it to describe non-Muslims within the empire.

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