Unknown History | LEARN HISTORY ACROSS THE WORLD on Instagram: "How did a “barbarian” become Roman Emperor? 🤔👑 After the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, the Eastern Roman Empire — what we now call the Byzantine Empire — carried on for almost a thousand more years. They spoke Greek, but they still called themselves Romans and ruled from Constantinople as the rightful heirs of Caesar and Augustus. 🏛️🦅 But in the year 800 CE, something dramatic happened in the West… On Christmas Day, Pope

The History Media on Instagram: "Historians love to debate when Rome actually “fell.” Some say 476 AD, when the last Western Roman emperor was deposed. Others argue 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans. But for many Greeks, Rome didn’t “fall” at all — it transformed. The Byzantine Empire called itself the Roman Empire until its very last breath, and even centuries later, Orthodox Christians in the Balkans still referred to themselves as Romans (Rhomaioi). That’s why in 1912, when Greec