So, Byzantines called themselves Romans until the very end, right?

>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.

>>1855884
When the Greek Revolution failed to take Constantinople and Bulgaria

>>1855900
>"No, we wuz Romans"

>>1855884
>At what point did these people stopped identifying as Romans and started to identify as Greeks?

After Justinian, when the legal codes switched over to Greek models instead of Roman ones, and when government was conducted solely in Greek and not Latin.

>>1855913
Doukas still refers to the Byzantines as Romans after the fall of Constantinople though. The Ottomans also still called Greece and Thrace Roumelia.

>>1855884
Most people considered them Greek anyway. Snowniggers who went south to fight as Byzantine mercenaries referred to the ERE as Greece and to their employers as Greeks.

There were actually some shades of Hellenic nationalism when the Byzantines got into some trouble in the 13th century, but for the most part people started to consider themselves Hellenes rather than Romans by the 18th century.

>>1855913
>After Justinian
Yeah, like 1000 years after. You utter mong

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>>1855900
>tfw

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>>1855900
Name me one instance of history more JUST-like than the tragedy of the Roman Empire /his/