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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 4027021, member: 95174&quot;]You are right technically,&nbsp; I should have said the Roman Empire in the East&nbsp; but the real&nbsp; point is they never called themselves Byzantine, that is a modern term, the called themselves Roman. </p><p><br /></p><p>Both Greek and Latin were official languages of the Roman Empire and&nbsp; in the 7th century it was changed to Greek other than that they were the evolution of an Empire that continued for roughly another 1000&nbsp; years after the fall of Rome. </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine could not have chosen a better spot for a second capital, a land filled with wealth the result , the west did not have what it needed to survive and the eastern lasted and for a time thrived.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simon[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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