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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6256435, member: 110504&quot;]...In the interests of emphasizing the fact that [USER=81093]@AussieCollector[/USER] isn&#039;t just being a curmudgeon about this (...granted, Curmudgeon Spoken Here, Fluently!), the Seljuk Turks were still calling the European side of the Bosphorus &#039;Roman,&#039; on the eve of the fall of Constantinople.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumelihisar%C4%B1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumelihisar%C4%B1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumelihisarı</a></p><p>The term also memorably shows up on folles of Leo the Wise, as of the early 10th century.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2129699" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2129699" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2129699</a></p><p>...In the latter instance, the linguistic dialectic is especially cool.&nbsp; &#039;Basilevs [Greek] Romeon.&#039;&nbsp; Just on a linguistic level, you can get the gestalt of an effectively seamless continuity of these folks referring to themselves as Roman, but in contemporaneous Greek.&nbsp; ...Going back to, for one obvious collective instance, Roman Provincial coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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