They were Greek people!

I thought Russia considered itself already to be the “third Rome”

Not Romans!

Which is a little funny

Most of eastern half was inhabited by Greek speakers

It’s not a legally valid claim to be the Roman successor state

They had a Roman princess. Big whup

The eastern empire get cucked by the Greeks after the 5th century.

I’m not talking legally, we all know they could never be Roman

Or Greek or Byzantine

@Snake if Russia was legitimately Rome’s mantle carrier that makes Finland the Roman Empire today and we ain’t ready for that perkeling conversation

Since who the emperors who didnt speak Latin or Greek

Lmao

Rome dies when the barbarians took it.

End of story.

They only took half

I prefer to go by the rule of:
>owns Constantinople, the previous capital *de iure*
>is Orthodox
>Is autocratic in governmental expression of power

Byzantines were just Greek pretending to be Romans.

Which means Putin is our hope

😂👌

And the Russian empire was nothing like Rome!

Being from the city of Rome stop being a requirement to be Roman around the time of Augustus

Eastern Roman Empire is Byzantium, which is just a name. Byzantium checks all of the boxes to be Roman

So yes, it’s Roman

Rome stop being the capital before Constantine even

The Russia thing was just ridiculous, Germany considered itself the HRE

Speaking of Orthodox

Byzantine is a later term came up with after the empire fall

Constantinople > Istanbadname

Modern historians stopped using the term

@Flavius Stilicho Modern historians don't know a shite.

Kinda wish Greece annexed Constantinople back in the 20’s

@yordanyordanov not again

That's why peopel are always rewriting histories.

cause truth is inconvenient.