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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 4026802, member: 5682&quot;]I was a little surprised by the statement, also.</p><p><br /></p><p>As we probably all know, the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines) always referred to themselves as Romans (Romaioi). It wasn&#039;t until after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire (1453) that Western commentators and historians would refer to the Eastern Empire as the Byzantine Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historian and numismatist Edward Gibbon popularized the term Byzantine Empire in the English-speaking world and helped to cement its negative connotations in his 18th century opus <i>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting anecdote:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ak435w/did_the_byzantines_call_themselves_byzantine_or/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ak435w/did_the_byzantines_call_themselves_byzantine_or/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ak435w/did_the_byzantines_call_themselves_byzantine_or/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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