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But Wikipedia[0] says Ῥωμαῖοι transliterates to Romaioi, i.e. "Romans".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Nomenclature

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> Byzaboos

Hey that's fresh. Do they have Hittitomori too?

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So I shouldn't call them Romans, since that is an English translation of what they called themselves, and thus foreign to them.

But you can call them Byzantines, an English term invented in the 19th century, because... you say so? Thank you, I have been enlightened.

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