Were they roman?
>>217740969Yes.
>>217740969Clearly noIt was not in Rome, it was Greek, and the main city was built over the settlement of Byzantium. So Byzantine Empire is, easy as that.
>>217740969Were the ottomans Rome?
>>217741207No
>>217740969No. But Russian Empire was Rome™
>>217741151Greek (Roman) Empire is the only correct name.
>>217740969They carried on the traditions of the empire itself so yes in that sense. Roman, but not Latin desu.
>>217740969they were byzantineswestern rome was the real inheritor of roman empire because they were latin while eastern rome was greek
>>217741892Greek was always the administrative language of the Eastern half of the Roman empire.
>>217740969Yes. They were the political continuation of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. >>217741151They called themselves the Roman Empire.Everybody else called them the Roman Empire. "Byzantine Empire" is literally just an invention by modern historians to differentiate between ancient Roman state and the medieval Roman state. Nobody used that word during the time that they existed.
>>217741207>Were the ottomans Rome?They claimed this at one point, if I remember right.
>>217740969Rome ended in 476 AD and anything afterwards is larp, besides maybe the Italian city-states and Renaissance.
