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This isn't really true. They claimed these titles because they intended to or did conquer Roman territory, and it was a prestigious title. See https://history
by nl 6y ago
This isn't really true.
They claimed these titles because they intended to or did conquer Roman territory, and it was a prestigious title.
See https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/59352/did-the-seljuk-consider-themselves-roman https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/59352/did-the-se... for a reasonable discussion.
- tomca32 6y agoThat's a great discussion, thanks for the link. Yeah I guess the calling it a cultural continuation of Rome is wrong. It's kind of hard to describe this in words because "culture" implies so many things like language, customs, and religion. The "Turkish Rome" didn't really inherit any of those traits. However, while this probably originated just as a manufactured claim, a casus belli for the Roman lands, over time it seems to have still evolved into something a bit more. Owning Constantinople didn't make people Roman in terms of culture, but it did make them an empire. Sulatane of Rum existed next to Rome for many years and seems to have considered itself a "better Rome than existing Rome". Makes me think of a parallel with the Holy Roman Empire, which similarly clung on to the title, but not the culture of Rome.