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The Byzantines were fucking Romans you manchildren 2017-03-31 05:22:21 Post No. 2593305
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The Byzantines were fucking Romans you manchildren
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Listen. I get it alright. I'm a Spainard who gets hard thinking about Rome's crimson legions exterminating some revolting barbarians. I'm a massive Romaboo who subscribed to the "Byzantines aren't real Romans" meme back when I was like 14. But come on. Being Roman ceased being an ethnic identity long before the Western Empire fell, and the actual city of Rome ceased being the capital or even the cultural center of the empire even longer before that. The most wealthy provinces of the empire were in the east, and Greek was already spoken alongside Latin in most parts of the Empire. The truth is that the Byzantines saw themselves as being the successors of the Romans culturally. They centered themselves in Constantinople and still upheld a hellinistic culture. Who disputes this.
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of course they're roman, just not by themselves. it takes both.
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>>2593305
But if thats true the ottomans would have claim to being roman we can't have that OP.
It will trigger the /pol/tards that think that romans were actually blonde and blue eyed nordics.
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>>2593305
Wait, PJW is deaf?
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>>2593795
The Ottoman's conquered Rome thought external military force.
Constantine established Constantinople (Byzantium) as the new capital of Rome and called it NEW ROME.
Is the United States of America not the United States of America because Philadelphia is not longer the captain of the United States?
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Mexicans are fucking Spaniards you man-children.
It's all about culture, race doesn't matter.
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>>2593305
I'd go further, Byzantium is a historiographical term made up by a butthurt scholar from the HRE after the fall of Constantinople, probably to delegitimize the surviving partition of the Roman empire. It wasn't a successor state but a continuation of the Empire.
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>ethnic identity
You mean urban identity?
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Get VISIGOTHED you cucked Celt
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