@ yorgos, salut! Denumirea Imperiului bizantin era de fapt Romania. Abia in Epoca Luminilor, Montesquieu, Voltaire si Gibbon inlocuiesc ideea de Romania cu aceea de Bysance, intr-o ideologie anti-Romania ce aserta, cu prea mare trufie, superioritatea civilizatiei Occidentului fata de civilizatia din Romania Orientala, in primul rand civilizatia ariana din ‘Romania timpurie’ a secolelor IV, V, VI. Dar in Occidentul European se dezvolta acum o miscare culturala pro-Romania, contrara ideologiei anti-Romania promovata de Montesquieu, Voltaire si Gibbon. Citez dintr-un studiu: +Montesquieu used the word "Byzantine." The word "Byzantine" denoted the Empire and connoted its supposed characteristics: dishonesty, dissimulation and decadence. The English scholar Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire treated the Empire after the sixth century as an epic of unrelieved degradation and corruption. The people who lived in the "Byzantine Empire" never knew nor used the word "Byzantine." They know themselves to be Romans, nothing more and absolutely nothing less. By transferring the Imperial capital from Rome on the Tiber to the New Rome on Bosphorus, dubbed Constantinople, the Emperor Constantine I had transferred the actual identity of Rome to the new location. Long before Constantine I, the idea of "Rome" had become dissociated from the Eternal City on the Tiber. For a Roman meant a Roman citizen, whereever he lived. Before the Imperial period, in 89 BC, a Roman law had granted Roman citizenship to people throughout Italy. Afterwards, citizenship became extended to an increasing number of people in different parts of the Empire. In 212, Emperor Caracalla declared all free persons in the Empire to be Roman citizens, entitled to call themselves Roman, not merely subject to the Romans. Within a few decades, people begin to refer to the entire Empire less often [in Latin] as "Imperium Romanorum" [Domain of the Romans] and more often as "Romania" [Romanland]+ In fine, vreau sa-ti reamintesc ca in Romania mijlocie (ca timp) a existat chiar o dinastie chemata dinastia macedoneana! Atunci, nu inteleg de ce clamezi ca este nonsens sa vorbim despre macedo-români.