> of course the people we call the byzantines were very well aware that they spoke greek and called themselves with greek names. they called themselves romans like how the ottomans called themselves romans (or the russians even), it was a territorial claim and not a claim to nationhood. they were the actual continuation of the roman state but yeah do go on. ottomans were just memeing just like the russians. the roman empire though, moved it's capital to constantinople, this was official. denying it is denying history.
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