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Dingoy wrote:

The Ottomans stole the remains of the Eastern Empire in 1453. So technically, yes, but no.

So then, you're making me sympathize with the patriot Panhellenists who marched across Istanbul demanding that the Ayia Sophia Mosque be converted into a Christian church? Heck, no.

I believe the Byzantine Empire is not as Roman as pagan Rome, it's an Eastern Orthodox satirization fabrication of pagan Rome in the fair guise of a 'continuation'. The last time Byzantium was acting real Roman was the time when Justinian the Great flexed his gains throughout the Meditteranean.

Archduchess veronica de karnstein wrote:

Personally, I feel like the Imperial House of Osman is the legitimate claimant to the Roman Empire since Mehmed stylized himself Cæsar after the siege of Byzantium in 1453. I've read that, 10 years after the capture of Byzantium, the Padishah walked over the ruins of Troy and had boasted he avenged the Trojans by conquering the Greeks. I've read the Iliad the way Ottoman fans read it; it was then my feelings for Turkey was born. _{^{(Emphasis in bold.)}}