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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is top right? Not enough pixels to discern much

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

You weren't kidding, that's a lot of flags.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

letters—chi and rho (ΧΡ)—of the Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ

... pronounced as khi ro.. sounds too much like ghy ro ... (gyro : doner kebab)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

... what's the turkish relation to the romans?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

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