11-10-2008, 03:41 PM
Quote:Timotheus:38dnz8xg Wrote:Gaius Julius Caesar:38dnz8xg Wrote:Timotheus:38dnz8xg Wrote:Gaius Julius Caesar:38dnz8xg Wrote:I personnally go with the Beginning of the Ottoman occupation of the Greek Eastern Empire, ie Greece itself, which was the last vestige of the old Empire.
That is a common choice but one thought always comes to mind. Mehmed II ruled over a very large percentage of the people that had been at one time part of the Roman Empire. At the same time he made sure to take the title Caesar as one of his many titles.
So why not say the Empire continued? The Empire had fundamentally changed from Latin to Greek, why not from Greek to Turk?
Actually I was just about to say 'It never ended....' :lol:
Well the Ottoman Sultan is gone, so is the Kaiser, and the Tsar. The Holy Roman Emperor who was not Roman or holy was last crowned in the 1910's so I do not think there is anyone around trying to associate back to the Roman Empire.
Thats what you think!! :wink: :lol:
Oops did I miss your coronation party?
Timothy Hanna
