Byzantine - The Name of the Roman Nation

The first use of the term byzantine was by the german historian hironomius wolf, who in 15 57 published a work called corpus historie byzantine. The islamic world referred to it as milit rum, or the roman nation, and the term was used to describe all orthodox christians in moslem lands well into the twentieth century. So strong was the roman identity among the people we call byzantines that it wasn't until the eighteenth and nineteenth century when people in to day what is greece stopped calling themselves roman and started referring themselves again as greek. This roman heritage exists to this very day in the name of the