Romania
With Romania were in the late antiquity , the Roman Empire and the Roman-Latin culture called ( Orosius , 5th cent.)
The Eastern Roman Empire ("Byzantium") referred to itself as Romania ( Latin ; Greek Ρωμανία), the citizens of the empire called themselves Ρωμαίοι (Rhomaioi) and not Byzantines , the emperor bore the title from the 9th century at the latest Βασιλεύς (των) Ρωμαίων (Basileus (ton) Rhomaion, ruler of the Romans).
After the fall of the Latin Empire , this self-designation was also used for those parts of the Balkan Peninsula that were still under western rule:
- During the Venetian rule in Morea , the eastern part of the Peloponnese was called Romania ; the area included the districts of Nauplia , Argos , Corinth , Tripolizza and Tsakonia with Nauplia as the capital.
- The kings of Naples called parts of their property (or claim to ownership) east of the Adriatic Romania , some members of the ruling family from the House of Anjou carried the title of despot from Romania (e.g. Philip I of Tarent from 1306), which means Epirus , Aetolia , Akarnanien and the Vlachia - the settlement area of the Vlachians (Aromani) especially in central Greece with the main town Metsovo .
Today the term is used in linguistics to denote the areas of Europe in which the Romance languages developed from the Latin language : see Romania (linguistics) .
After all, "România" is Romania's proper name .
See also
- Rumelia - European part of the Ottoman Empire
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus Konversationslexikon, 14th edition, 1898