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TorchedBlack t1_ir3d1x7 wrote

Reply to comment by SyllabubLopsided4724 in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER

Not really, they mentioned the byzantines. The byzantine empire was the breakaway empire of the eastern Roman empire. It controlled Greece for a while as well. The line at which you say when byzantines were byzantines vs Romans is pretty murky.

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Remon_Kewl t1_ir4b0xx wrote

It controlled Greece and was controlled by greeks for most of the East Roman empire's history.

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Anthemius_Augustus t1_ir4uy78 wrote

>The byzantine empire was the breakaway empire of the eastern Roman empire.

It wasn't a "breakaway empire" of the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the Eastern Roman Empire. Strange wording. It's not like the "Byzantines" 'broke away' from the Eastern Empire, they were the same thing.

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