Rum Millet

Rūm millet (millet-i Rûm), atau "bangsa Romawi", adalah nama komunitas Gereja Ortodoks Timur di Kekaisaran Utsmaniyah. Pada kenyataannya, umat Kristen ditaklukan oleh Islam, tetapi menikmati otonomi internal tertentu.

Peta persebaran agama di wilayah Kekaisaran Utsmaniyah pada akhir abad ke-16.

Sultan Mehmed II dan Patriark Gennadios II. Mehmed II mengijinkan Patriarkat Ekumenikal untuk tetap aktif usai Kejatuhan Konstantinopel pada 1453.

Daftar pustaka

• Detrez, Raymond; Segaert, Barbara (2008). Europe and the Historical Legacies in the Balkans. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-90-5201-374-9. 
• Karpat, Kemal H (2002). Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-12101-3. 
• Roudometof, Victor; Robertson, Roland (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31949-5. 
• История на българите (2004). История на българите. TRUD Publishers. ISBN 978-954-528-467-0. 

Bacaan tambahan

• Greek Millet Constitution: Γενικοί Κανονισμοί περί της διευθετήσεως των εκκλησιαστικών καί εθνικών πραγμάτων των υπό του Οικονομικού Θρόνου διατελούντων ορθοδόξων χριστιανών υπηκόων Της Αυτού Μεγαλειότητος του Σουλτάνου. Constantinople. 1862. .
• Young, George (1905–1906), Corps de droit ottoman (dalam bahasa Prancis), Oxford, England: Clarendon Press Pemeliharaan CS1: Format tanggal (link) - The French translation of the Greek Millet Constitution is in Volume 2 of 7, pages 21-34.

Sumber

• From Rum Millet to Greek Nation: Enlightenment, Secularization, and National Identity in Ottoman Balkan Society, 1453–1821, Victor Roudometof.
• Balkan cultural commonality and ethnic diversity. Raymond Detrez (Ghent University, Belgium).