Quote Originally Posted by keravnos
Exactly. I consider them as east romani speaking greek. It was only after us Greeks were under Turkish occupation that we considered ourselves as Greeks. Prior to that we thought ourselves as Romans, and so did the Turks. "Rumi" they called us then, aka Romani.
Yeah, it's quite an interesting subject really, Roman identity politics that is, not even most people of the Italian peninsula could really consider themselves to be Roman latins, and even the Turks having conquered the Eastern Roman Empire considered themselves to be Eastern Romans.