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    Symbasileus ton Rhomaioktonon Member Maion Maroneios's Avatar
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    Default Re: The Story of Souls: A Sweboz AAR

    Quote Originally Posted by desert View Post
    Ok, I'll make some preliminary corrections until someone more qualified arrives.

    Arche Byzantium = Byzantium is Latin; Arche Byzantion (Arche Byzantiou?)
    Romanoi = Romaioi
    Mare Mediterraneum = also Latin; Mesogeios
    Constantinopolis = so is it called Byzantion, still Constantinopolis, or both used interchangeably?
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    Arche Byzantiou is not wrong, but I'll tell you what's wrong here. You see, the word "Byzantion" wasn't used at that time. The Byzantine Greeks called themselves "Romaioi" (Romans) and their Empire "Imperium Romanorum" or "Autokratoria Romaion" in Greek. They still considered themselves descendants of the old Roman Empire, not a new Greek Empire. The Greek element just happened to be prevalent.

    As for the capital, it's Konstantinoupolis (ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΙΣ=Η ΤΟΥ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΣ or Constantine's city) in Greek.

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    Last edited by Maion Maroneios; 12-18-2008 at 10:41.
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