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Explanation: The Roman Empire, being one of the most massive and successful empires Europe had ever seen, inspired awe, and imitation for over a millennium after its fall (or the fall of the Western Empire, if you're a dirty Byzantine).
Curiously, the Ottoman Empire, a polity originating from Central Asian Turkic peoples, claimed the mantle of the Roman Empire after destroying the Roman successor state of the Byzantine Empire.
For this reason you can, with a bit of pedantry and an embrace of a distinctly minority position of imperial legitimacy, argue that the Roman Empire fell in 1922.
With regards to the title, as a Romaboo, I will ALWAYS be petty towards the Byzantines (who were majority Greek/Hellenized peoples) because they took everything that was horrible about the Late Roman Empire and made it worse. Up to and including regarding LATIN ITSELF as a barbarian tongue! THEY ARE THE BARBARIANS, NOT US
At least Kayser-i-Rum Mehmed II was proud of his Latin 😭
Byzantines were romans and Justinian was on a path to restoring complete empire until he took an arrow (or ten) in the knee. Fight me! (actually don't fight me)
By Jupiter, I will give you a taste of my sandal
He is worse than a Iudean, may Jupiter have mercy on my soul for saying this, he is, a Byzantine.
The ottomans were roman in so much that if I break into someone's house , kill them and steal their legal identity, don't bother acting like them at all, I become them.
Yeah, I'm using their ID and I live in their house, but I'm probably not the same person.
But they really knew how to put their feet up after a hard day.
I dunno, the ID is pretty convincing.
"And yes, Mr Osman, you say your full name is 'Christóphoros Nicolas Costas Papadoupulos' , as indicated in this ID, and I see you have chosen to grow a mustache and gone bald very quickly in the last year?"
"Evet... I mean, ney"
"And you also grew 30 cm and somehow changed skin colour?"
"😰 Yes..."
"I see no problems, welcome aboard!"