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stopped speaking? The Eastern Empire never spoke Latin. There was always a cultural divide.
by justinzollars 3y ago
stopped speaking?
The Eastern Empire never spoke Latin. There was always a cultural divide.
- aleksiy123 3y agoEastern?
- mr_toad 3y agoBasically all the Mediterranean east of the Adriatic was either a Greek speaking colony or conquest, especially after Alexander had marched across it. In Egypt for example the Ptolemaic dynasty spoke Greek (Cleopatra was the first to even learn Egyptian) and it was still widely used in Roman times.
- aleksiy123 3y agoThey edited the comment it used to say. "The Western Empire never spoke Latin."
- mcv 3y agoWhat about Romania? That's a Romance language, which presumably means it's derived from Latin. I have no idea how it ended up that far east, but it being a Latin-speaking part of the Eastern Roman Empire sounds plausible to me. Not to mention that according to the article, that eastern Roman Empire also called itself Romania.
- throw_pm23 3y agoYeah, it is significantly more complicated than the parent post implies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jire%C4%8Dek_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jire%C4%8Dek_Line
- navane 3y agoEvery time some peoples came from the east to trample Europe, they came trough this patch of land and scorched it. Romania's longing to Roman history is mostly a nation building effort. Romania was a buffer territory between the Ottomans, Habsburgs (austria-hungary) and Huns for many centuries. It was so hard to get people to live there, because there would always come an army to torch everything to the ground. They lured Germans to live there and civilize the country in return for city rights.
- throw_pm23 3y agoThat's all fine and good, but a population of 25 million that speaks a Romance language still popped out of somewhere.