Romania

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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:

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

Individual evidence

  1. Brockhaus Konversationslexikon, 14th edition, 1898