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>tfw Veeky Forums spergs deny that this was the roman empire

It's just a bunch of T*rk shitposters.

Is Justinian the most expansive of all Roman emperors? I can't think of another who added as much territory except perhaps Augustus and maybe kinda sorta Aurelian.

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Well, a map with a bunch of dots over most Iberia seems certainly suspicious.

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Your face is pretty wide my friend, have you considered seeing a specialist?

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What about Spain and France?

It stopped being the Roman Empire and became a Greek statelet after Heraclius, when Greek was made the official language and Middle East was lost to the Arabs.

PAY DEBT

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But it still had Rome and most of Italy after both of those things happened

Italy became wholly irrelevant after the Gothic War.

But it was still the same state

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>Veeky Forums reads history from wikipedia

He killed hundreds of millions

to save trillions

Byzantine Empire was NOT Roman

i'm more Roman than entire Byzantine Kingdom (not empire because it was too pathetic to be an empire)

go back to your asian yurt

shut up subhuman roach

>wh*Te calling anyone subhuman
I beat wh*Tes irl wh*Te boy.

>Eastern
So...east of Rome
>Roman
Pretty sure the Romans didn't call themselves Rhomanion.
>Empire
A large kingdom perhaps

>The Roman Empire
>(Latin: Imperium Rōmānum)
>(Greek: Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn)

What did he mean by this?

A lot easier to add territory to the Empire during your reign if your reign begins with a small empire

I was just going through a list of all the major inventions and innovations the Byzantine Empire created over all those centuries.

Took me a whole minute

State was a more ambiguous term back then

>Millions
>In wars involving Justinian
I think Belasarius' greatest campaign was fought with about 10 000 men

But the roaches called Byzantine Rum (Rome). It's Western and Central Europe which says the Empire died in the 400s

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>He hasn't heard
Lmao I bet you also think Justinian isn't the son of a demon and his wife was a turboslut

It was, but it still wasn't THAT ambiguous. There was direct and unbroken political continuity between the Roman Empire circa 100 AD and the Roman Empire circa 700 AD. There is absolutely no basis by which to consider the reign of Heraclius a break in that continuity.

Alexios was a very cool guy and he deserves a lot more praise I think. Shame his and John's successes were undone by his retarded fucking grandson.

>people say it stopped being Rome when Greek was adopted as the official language

Greek was always widely used alongside Latin in the Roman Empire, especially by the more educated upper classes, all that happened by the Byzantine period was that Greek overtook Latin. But both Latin and Greek were the languages of Rome