Not to mention one simple fact...

The great majority of Romani "inteligensia", senior administrators, senators, generals, their family and belongings, all emigrated to Konstaninoupolis, or Nova Roma prior to the destruction of Roma at 410 CE, and immediately afterwards. So did anyone who could.

If we were back in time, even prior to the destruction of Western Roman empire, anyone observing from afar would see 2 Romani empires, the "old" dieing one and the "newer" one who would apper to anyone as more "built to last" than the old one.

So in fact it was the "heart" and "soul" of the Romani who got transfered to "Romania" as the Byzantines would call their state-No relation to present day Romania-. Turks called the byzantines Rumi, and their first sultanate on former byzantine anatolian soil was called "Sultanate of Rum". We present greeks even to this date call ourselves "Romioi" not as descendants of Roma, but of the Nova Roma state, aka Byzantio.

As I posted in an earlier thread about this very thing, Romani who could fled Roma to save themselves and their civilisation, then hundreds of years later found themselves on the receiving end of Germanics calling themselves Romans (after some Pappal nasty tricks, aka "Donatio Constantini" and other forgeries) because of some "slight" doctrinal changes imposed by the former to differentiate from "the other Romans".

Like leaving your burning house to save your life, and then someone comes 2 generations down to kill your offspring claiming he is your true descendant, while he 's the one who burned down your former house.