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>>18435672
>Did people at the periphery of rome go hard on the "we izz roman o algo" larp just like people at the periphary of Europe/the EU go hard on the "we izz european" larp?

Some of them did.

>>18435694
they kept the language alive, romanian is closer to latin than italian is. it's more like the moorberians who larp about being roman

>>18435699
Pretty cool really. You'd guess it was some half-asssed Sultanate of Rum LARP but the Romanians really committed to the bit.

>>18435699
A big language reform some 250 years ago did most of the heavy lifting. I'd argue that Sardinian is the most archaic Romance language, as the island has always been hard to control by outside powers as the locals could just hide inland in inaccessible terrain..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-latinization_of_Romanian

>>18435699
>>18435889
>So both Byzantine Greek and Latin Crusader referred themselves as Empire of Romania?
Would Vlad III the impaler had recapture former imperial capital and liberate Bulgaria, after killed Mehmed II in critical night attack?