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Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is often aged in barrels of oak. Rum originated in the Caribbean in the 17th century, but today it is produced in nearly every major sugar-producing region of the world. Rums are produced in various grades.
The term Urums, also derived from the same origin, is still used in contemporary ethnography to denote Turkic-speaking Greek populations. "Rumeika" is a Greek dialect identified mainly with the Ottoman Greeks. [citation needed] The Chinese during the Ming dynasty referred to the Ottomans as Lumi (魯迷), derived from Rum or Rumi.
Rum has been produced in Arecibo since the second half of the 19th century. Roses, García y Co. was bottling their Ron de la Casa de Roses as early as 1868. Ron Llave dates from 1891, and by 1893 they were purveyors of rum under license from the Royal house of Spain. There were several rum producers in Arecibo by the beginning of the 20th century.
Haswell-Smith (2004) suggests that Rum is "probably" pre-Celtic, but may be Old Norse rõm-øy for "wide island" or Gaelic ì-dhruim (pronounced [iˈɣɾɯim]) meaning "isle of the ridge". Ross (2007) notes that there is a written record of Ruim from 677 and suggests "spacious island" from the Gaelic rùm .
Malibu, a Barbados rum originating in Curaçao and presumably named after Malibu, California; Midleton Very Rare, an Irish whiskey produced in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland; Nemiroff, a Ukrainian brand of vodka after town Nemyriv in Ukraine; Newfoundland Screech, a rum named after the province of Newfoundland, Canada
Rum display in a U.S. liquor store (2009) Rum is distilled in a wide variety of locations by a number of different producers. Below is a list of rum brands and distillers organized by location of the distiller. [1]
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France produces many different kind of rums in several different locations. Most of the rums are cane juice rums or rhum agricoles. [1] The different distilleries are located in the French oversea departments and territories of La Réunion, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Saint Barthélemy.