Sorry, I just have a petty personal crusade to try to get people to stop causing a fuss about what we call the Byzantines.

Seriously, this isn’t anything new or groundbreaking. All of this ‘Roman not Byzantine’ stuff is rather tiresome by now.

It was first deployed in the 16th century by Hieronymus Wolf and popularised in the 17th century by Charles du Cange. It was already very well established by the 19th century.

No, I think it’s silly. For one thing, anyone with any interest in the Byzantine Empire already knows that they called themselves Romans, and we’re far enough removed from the 16th century that we aren’t being Orientalist when we say ‘Byzantine’. It’s just historiographical convention now.

By the time you got off the train, your money would be half the value it was when you got on and you wouldn’t even be able to afford absinthe anymore ;)

Yep, that’s Margaret Mullett!

Constantine’s Wikipedia page has already been updated with the image!

Now, how long can Russia keep those last remaining bases on the coast?

They might want to revisit this part of their constitution to make sure that a president can’t just order the army to do a coup like this in the future. I’d also think about firing the army leaders who followed the order so obediently this time around.

If the army had done a better job of sealing it off, they wouldn’t have been able to vote. The line between success and failure was literally a question of representatives physically evading military security. That’s a little too close for comfort!