TRUST ME GUYZ, WE WUZ REALLY ROMANS N SHEEEIT
>>2452696
They were though.
>>2452696
They are.
>>2452810
>>2452819
Byzantium after Justinian isn't Roman anymore because they abandon Latin in favor of Greek and lose control of Rome later. You need to at least have Latin culture to be Roman.
>the eastern half of the roman empire containing the political and economic core of the empire at the time of partition isn't roman because muh wicked segmentata legions, muh epick pagan empire