What was the ethnic make up of the Byzantines

weren't the majority Greeks?

>>2280252
this

>>2280252
Yes. The ERE was composed of a Greek majority along with Slavs, Bulgars, and Armenians. They held Terronia for a long time, as well small parts of the Levant.

>romans
>white

typical snownigger wewuzing

>>2280318
so do many consider Byzantine a Greek Empire?

similar to Macedonia?

The ethnic composition of the nations of the Old World hasn't changed substantially since the heyday of the Byzantines except for like Ireland.

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>>2280337

>>2280213
roman (black)

>>2280340
There wasn't really much of an identification with Greek ethnicity while the Byzantine Empire was around, except briefly during the 13th century.

"Byzantine Empire" is a modern term that's been falling out of use lately in academia. The people living in it called it the Roman Empire and identified as Romans before anything else. The only people who called them Greeks were the Pope and hoighty toighty Germans.

>>2280213
greeks, anatolians, thracians, slavs, armenians, a couple of germanics...
Basically, balkanites.
shrug

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>>2280340
Think of it like this: the Roman Empire shrank to just around the area of Greece and Anatolia, an area with a Greek majority. But it was still the exact same state "founded" by Augustus. So their ethnicity was Greek, but their nationality was Roman. After a couple of centuries of illiterate peasants calling themselves Romans, the term was conflated with ethnicity by the populace. Greeks still called themselves Romans right up to the 1980s, older people still do so.

>>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.[16]