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Greeks that called themselves Romans for 2 millennia (200BC - 1800 A.D until the Hellenes name is back I think). Fascinating history. The Roman (Rhomaion) iden
by inawarminister 6y ago
Greeks that called themselves Romans for 2 millennia (200BC - 1800 A.D until the Hellenes name is back I think). Fascinating history.
The Roman (Rhomaion) identity was decoupled from the Latin language by the Early Byzantines.
- colechristensen 6y agoThe Byzantines never called themselves Byzantines, they called themselves Roman. Lots of places adopted Roman names with varying levels of legitimacy.
- mr_toad 6y agoThere were Greek speaking colonies around the Bosporus and in Egypt before the Romans got there.