Alyssea said: I always feel like this is a very big double standard by Byzaboos. They're adamant about Byzantium being called Rome "because that's what they called themselves", but care not for the HRE calling itself Rome, the Ottomans calling itself Rome Click to expand...

The biggest difference here is that the Eastern Roman Empire was... well actually a part of the roman empire? All that happened is that the Western Roman Empire fell. While they didn't hold rome it wasn't really that important politically or economically during the end of the Western Roman Empire.Heck, the Eastern Roman Empire is what made all the money and was holding up the West. Things changed sure, they became more greek. But at the same time the Western Roman Empire was going through the same thing. They were adopting Greek ideas for centuries. People called them the Roman Empire too, those who didn't did so to basically challenge their claim on that title. i.e the HRE calling them "Kingdom of the Greeks".Why not just call it the Eastern Roman Empire? That's what it was before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which combined was the Roman Empire. Best way to think about it is the same way Empires work with having multiple kingdom titles, except they had 2 Empire titles.Why are people trying to call it Roman Empire or Empire of the Greeks rather than...??