What happened to the eastern roman people?

...what?

How can Greeks take over Greeks?

>>1815466
but greeks cant be roman

>>1815431
The people who lived in Roman Provinces were almost always the original inhabitants before conquest, just with roman citizenship given to them to make them subjects of the Republic/Empire.

There really is no such thing as an ethnic Roman or Roman race; the Latin peoples, the original founders of Rome, rarely ever settled outside of Italy, only settling other provinces when there was land distributions going on.

The Eastern Empire was still populated by Greeks, Egyptians, and so on throughout its history, just as there were still Gauls and Britons living in modern day France/England.

TL;DR: the Latins weren't in the business of wiping out people and replacing them with Latins, but rather giving citizenship to conquered peoples and teaching them the Language/Law, making them Roman.

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>>1815431
you do know that the western 'roman' empire had like maybe 5% (ROME)-ans in it, right? The rest were Italics, Germanicss, Gauls, Spanish Tribes, Berbers, Britons, etc. The word 'Empire' implies domination of subject peoples'.

>>1815485
They're about the same desu

do greeks really think theyre roman?

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>>1816035
yes

it's sad and all but we give them a pass so they don't throw a tantrum while amassing debts

>>1815431

Huns, Goths, Visigoths were destroying everything there but then went to Western Roman Empire and destroyed that instead

>>1815431
Rehellenized, latinized Hellenes.

>>1816054
have golden dawn been up to anything lately? I'm still laughing about that time they rioted in front of a theater that was putting on an LGBT play, while chanting about how homosexuality was incompatible with greek culture.

>>1816035
>On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was occupied and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked. ‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied. ‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted. ‘‘No, we are Romans." Thus was the most ancient national identity in all of history, preserved in isolation, finally absorbed and ended.[15]

>>1815573
>giving citizenship to conquered peoples

This didn't happen until Caracalla. The Romans were not in the business of handing out citizenship to conquered peoples, they (and we're talking about 80% of the populatin here) were peregrini - free but without the rights of Roman citizens.

And the Romans definitely WERE in the business of seeding conquered areas with their own people and replacing/Latinising the locals. It just didn't happen in the East very much because it was already civilised and more densely populated than the West.

>>1818929
This might shock you but it stopped being acceptable to be gay in Greece about 1700 years ago.

>>1816054
Why does he look like a Turk? Aaaa right, because Turkish people are actually Greeks who got assimilated by asiatic turkics

>>1819058
WE

>>1819549
>Why does he look like a Turk?
he doesn't

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>>1820892
He does. He could be the brother of the father of a "famous" Turkish youtuber in Germany.

>>1819104
>This didn't happen until Caracalla.
But I thought he was disdainful of plebs.

>>1815431
>Eastern Roman People

what the fuck are you talking about anon

>>1816054
>t. Meximedus

>>1820892
I have seen Turks whiter than him.
Why are modern Greeks so sensitive about their mixed heritage?

>>1819549
The people living in Anatolia before the Turks settled there weren't ethnically Greek either. They were Anatolians, with probably more near-eastern admixture than Hellenics

>>1823831
before the Turks invaded, there was an ethnic continuum from the Levantine peoples in Syria through Anatolia and to the Greeks
this whole area has been prone to 'invasions' from east, south (africa) and yes even north
I'm not a nordicist, but /his/ gets really stupid when they disregard all ethnicities immigrating from northern europe

good thread

>>1823831
There was a large number of Greeks living in East-Anatolia, while the East was inhabited by mostly Armenians and Kartvelians.

Before the Roman conquest, almost all of the territories of Byzantium were ruled by Greek polities, so it makes sense that the Greek language and culture would be adopted when the connection with Rome was broken.

>>1815431
they used to speak Latin but then they were all like "hey we are already in Greece, who the fuck are we frontin"