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Re:What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? by mr_toad on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:21PM (#39518531)
Basically all the Mediterranean east of the Adriatic was either a Greek speaking colony or conquest, especially after Alexander had marched across it.

In Egypt for example the Ptolemaic dynasty spoke Greek (Cleopatra was the first to even learn Egyptian) and it was still widely used in Roman times.

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Re:What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? by aleksiy123 on Monday February 26, 2024 @07:30PM (#39518597)
They edited the comment it used to say.

"The Western Empire never spoke Latin."

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