Rome by another name The Seljuks of Rum ruled central and eastern Anatolia from the late eleventh century to the early fourteenth. Their capital was Konya, the old Greek Ikonion, and their name gives away whose land they held. "Rum" comes from Rhomaioi, the Greek word by which the Byzantines called themselves, so a Turkish dynasty took its title from the Roman name of the territory it had taken from Byzantium. For a collector whose main interest is the Roman Republic, that et