What do you choose to refer to it as?

The Levant?

>>2811397
Byzantium

>>2811397
They referred to themselves as the Roman empire.

what we call them is irrelevant

Romania

>>2811397
Cuckzantium colloquially

The Ottoman Empire

>>2811397
Bunch of filthy greeks

Levant, anatolia, greece & macedonia

general term: east mediterranean

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>>2811422
More importantly, they were part of a continuous lineage and polity which referred to itself as Roman.

If my parents and government refers to themselves as Roman, and their parents and government do the same, up until the before 400AD where Rome itself recognized it as so, it is absolutely ridiculous to consider them anything else.

The Proto-Ottoman Empire

The Levant, you illiterate son of a bitch.