04-25-2018, 07:34 PM
Yes the so-called "Byzantine" empire was just the Roman empire, and they continued to identify as Romans (to be a "Greek" or "Hellene" at that time was to be a Pagan, until the beginning of a Greek ethnogenesis after the events of 1204-1261).
Technically it really wasn't even a Greek empire considering much of inland Greece was only arbitrarily under Roman control until the late 10th century AD. It was by and large an Anatolian empire, really.
Technically it really wasn't even a Greek empire considering much of inland Greece was only arbitrarily under Roman control until the late 10th century AD. It was by and large an Anatolian empire, really.
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