Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 6706414, member: 96635&quot;]You should check out my paragraph above where I fully explain this, because I see there are some different understandings about this. It is not like some people think it is. I am Greek myself and spoken with many historical educated Greeks about this. People calling themselves Rhomaioi after WW1/Balkan wars is because the nationalistic awareness started in the 19th century, all around the beginning of the Hellenic state. Places like Lemnos (where this 1912 quotation is from ‘‘No, we are Romans.&quot;) were not part of this &quot;Hellenic state&quot; until 1912. The locals were not fully consciousness raised and the the children fell back on the Byzantine and Ottoman default. They just did not know yet those &quot;Hellenics&quot; were actually the same people as them, the nationalist consciousness just took a while to propagate and did not reach Lemnos until 1912. In 1827, the Greeks at the third national assembly at Troezen established the <b>Hellenic</b> State (Eλληνικὴ Πολιτεία). They were not any different then all the other Greek people living in the Ottoman parts in that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in