Baciyani-Rum

التعريفات والمعاني

== Azerbaijani == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bâciyân-ı Rûm). Literally, 'Sisters of Rum'. === Proper noun === Baciyani-Rum (uncountable) (historical) a Turkoman female Sufi guild and a female militia organization in the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, the Ahi Brotherhood, or the Ahi Republic, and in the Anatolian Turkic beyliks; allegedly created by Ahi Evran, an Azerbaijani Turkic Sufi saint from Khoy, and by his wife Fatima. === Further reading === La Broquière, Bertrandon de (1892), La Voyage d'outremer, Paris, page 118