The Rumi Darwaza (Hindi: रूमी दरवाज़ा, Urdu: رومی دروازه‬, and sometimes known as the Turkish Gate

Rumi means Roman (i.e., related to the Roman empire). It is believed that the gate is called Rumi gate simply because it was modeled after the gateways of Istanbul, which under the name Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine)