Description A leading historian argues that in the Empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their Ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself "Byzantine." And while the identities of minorities in the eastern Empire are clear--contemporaries speak of Slavs, Bulgarians, Armenians, Jews, an.
Description A leading historian argues that in the Empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their Ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons