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Re:The Last Day of Constantinople by edgyquant on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:10AM (#36488798)
You’re not wrong about the name Byzantium but you are dead wrong about East/West being a later invention. The Romans themselves split it along these lines and even had an emperor for each half before Constantine.
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Re:The Last Day of Constantinople by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:54AM (#36489700)
They didn’t really consider these two halves to be separate states, the empire was viewed as universal and indivisible by most.

Having multiple emperors was perfectly acceptable though, if not entirely practical most of the time.

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Re:The Last Day of Constantinople by nindalf on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:58AM (#36490523)
The point you could be missing is that while there was an administrative split, the folks living in the East still considered themselves Roman citizens. Which they were, in law.
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