The Sultanate of Rûm (also known as the Rûm sultanate (, "Saljuqiyān-e Rum"), Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate, Sultanate of Iconium, Anatolian Seljuk State () or Seljuk Turkey () was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim state established in the parts of Anatolia which had been conquered from the Byzantine Empire by the Seljuk Empire, which was established by the Seljuk Turks.