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