... what's the turkish relation to the romans?
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Roman Empire > Byzantine Empire > Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople > Ottoman Sultan claims the title of Kayser-i Rum > Turkiye as the successor to the Ottomemes is now also the successor to the Romans
What is top right? Not enough pixels to discern much
Liqian, a small town in China which claims descent from Roman soldiers captured by Persia during the Late Roman Republic.
The theory is fringe in terms of available evidence (it's possible but largely unsupported), but the town has embraced it, and that's pretty based by my measure. o7
Fascinating. Some solid Roman Empire energy, a la 40K orcs believing in their tech enough for it to work
What is top middle?
One of the many standards of the Byzantine Empire
letters—chi and rho (ΧΡ)—of the Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ
... pronounced as khi ro.. sounds too much like ghy ro ... (gyro : doner kebab)
You weren't kidding, that's a lot of flags.