f) The “Byzantine Empire” : quid pro quo.
49. Between 330 and 1453 Constantinople New Rome was the Capital of the Roman Empire and then continued to be the Βασιλεύουσα ( Queen of All Cities ), with the same name until today. The Osmanli or Ottoman Empire and the Kemalic regime, call Constantinople, Istanbul, originating, according to professor Steven Runciman and any intelligent linguist, from the Greek : εἰς τὴν Πόλιν ( in the City ). The Queen of All Cities was never the capital of any “Byzantine Empire”. The European part of the Osmanli Empire was called “Rumeli” in Turanic languages, meaning : “Land of the Romans.” Even the Arabs, Persians, Indians, Japanese or Chinese or even the Muslim Osmali conquerors of the Roman Empire of New Rome were not aware of any “Byzantine Empire”. The occidental invention and ideological falsification of the so-called Byzantine Empire never existed except in Frankish conquered western Europe. Those who preach such nonsense are either uncultured liars with a hidden agenda – byzantinologists (?) such as “professor” Mango of Oxford – or else, brainwashed victims of the religious creators of this “Byzantine Empire” that never existed. Those who hide the Roman reality of this Empire are agents, haphazardly, of Charlemagne’s Frankish propaganda, who, in 794, decided that Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, or the Empire of the Romans, is a “Greek” Empire – as if this term and predicate meant something disparate or antagonistic! – in order to invalidate it in the eyes of the enslaved West Romans in conquered Gaul, Italy and Western Iberia. Ere long, ideologically enough, in 1557, this “Greek” Empire turned into Hieronymus Wolf’s “Byzantine Empire” – in his bad to, at best, mediocre translations from the Greek language in Corpus historiæ byzantinæ – to puzzle further and confuse scholastic scholars and other philosophical idiots. Later in time, the tiny and insignificant Modern Hellenic State, a Western protectorate and client State, obviously differed from the Greek Empire invented by Charlemagne in 794. This resulted in a clear distinction between Hellenes and Greeks in international law, believe it or not. Hellenes are the citizens of modern Hellas, the Greek State at the tip of the Haenus or Greek Peninsula ( Balkan in Turanic ), and the Greeks are … Greeks according to Western Powers, even if, until today, they continue to call themselves Romans in their native languages. The four Roman Patriarchates of Constantinople New Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, for instance, call themselves Roman in Greek, Aramaic, Coptic, Turkic, Farsi and Arabic. The Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem are Roman in Coptic, Aramaic and Arabic, but Greek in European Languages, due maybe to French and British occupation upon World War I. Only Constantinople New Rome was exempted from such ideological treatment, as the Βασιλεύουσα was never occupied by the British or French. The latter Western imperialist powers faithfully apply Charlemagne’s lie of 794 to the Roman Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Singularly enough, letters sent, in 1823, from Italy to the first capital of the liberated from Osmanli rule Peloponnese were addressed to Napoli di Romania ( Ναύπλιον Ῥωμανίας ) in order to distinguish it from Napoli d’Italia ( Νεάπολις–Παρθενόπη Καμπανίας ).
What if anything is a Byzantine if not the citizen or inhabitant of Βυζάντιον, or Βυζαντίς, the city founded by the mythical hero Βύζας, facing the established city of Χαλκιδών, on the Βόσπορος ( the Straight of the Bull ). The city of Βυζάντιον became, ad litteram, Nova Roma, the City of Constantine, Κωνσταντίνου Πόλις, the capital city of the Imperium Romanorum ( Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων ) the Empire of the Romans.
The “Byzantine Empire” is an incantation or a conjuration; an ideological falsification of history, and has never existed ! Ipso facto. However, occidental idiocy added the following adjectives and insinuations to the list of negative uttering : byzantine now means complex, complicated, intricate, tortuous, and to make a secret plan to do something wrong, harmful, or illegal.