| Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium Subjects: Romans -- Byzantine Empire; Romans -- Ethnic identity; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- Roman influences; National characteristics Roman; Byzantine Empire -- Ethnic relations; Cultural pluralism -- Byzantine Empire; Byzantine Empire -- History; A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. |