[1] In 1828, after the signing of the Treaty of Turkmenchay by which Iran lost the khanates (provinces) of Erivan and Nakhchivan, Iranian Crown Prince Abbas Mirza invited many of the Turkic tribes that would be otherwise subjected to rule by the Russian Empire to move inside Iran's newly established borders.

[1] They are associated with numerous villages in Iran's West Azerbaijan province and are completely sedentary in contemporary times.

[citation needed] There is no relation between Ayrums and the Greek Orthodox Turkic-speaking Urum people.

The confusion is rooted in the lack of the Turkic sound "-ı" in Persian and its consequent representation by "-u".

The name Ayrum has various spellings in the English language, such as Eyrum, Eirom and Airom.