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Emperors stopped to be of latin ethnicity much earlier, not after the move of the capital to Constantinople.
by muro 5y ago
Emperors stopped to be of latin ethnicity much earlier, not after the move of the capital to Constantinople.
- coldtea 5y agoSort of. A few were (Philip the Arab, for example), but many also conflate "not being born in Rome/Italy" with not having latin ethnicity. There were sizable pockets or latin ethnicity (including governors, nobility, and lots of commoners) established in different areas of the empire. Hispania for example was conquested and settled by romans (plus roman soldiers being send there, given land), so a "spanish" emperor is not exactly a non-roman emperor. Even Septimius Severus, which was born in Libya, had latin roman ancestry (albeit mixed with Phoenician).