That'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 wo

That'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.