Sultanate of Rum
The Sultanate of Rum or Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (, Saljūqiyān-i Rūm, Modern Turkish: Anadolu Sel?uklu Devleti or Rum Sultanl???), was a medieval Turko-Persian,Bernard Lewis, Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire, (University of Oklahoma Press, 1963), 29; "Even when the land of Rum became politically independent, it remained a colonial extension of Turco-Persian culture which had its centers in Iran and Central Asia","The literature of Seljuk Anatolia was almost entirely in Persian...".