@lina@eientei.org @vitalis@dirtyknight.life @meso@new.asbestos.cafe The Bulgurs were only a serious rival power in the region for short while. I don't know the details, but one of the Emperors got the title "the bulgur slayer" or something. Now the nationality question. That is far more complicated thanks to a policy of Emperor Caracalla who gave out Roman citizenships like candy to win the loyalty of the provinces. This had the weird effect that a crap ton of non-Italians, especially Greek, Egyptians and Balkan people, saw themselves as Roman. This made the move to the Capital under Constantine piss easy honestly. Another second order effect that some church men could play it lose with the law and hide in the Western Roman Empire from troubles in the Eastern Roman Empire. Later down the line, pushing heresies to the other guys was also a favorite tactic of removing problems. Bogomilism got to the West that way were it mutated into various other whacky Carthar sects. In short; Yes, for a while at the beginning of the New Roman Empire, some Bulgurs were indeed Roman.

@lina@eientei.org @vitalis@dirtyknight.life they are bulgarian. Byzantines are not

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