Who volunteers to tell the Serbians that they’re Hellenic?
Serbia and Greece are brotherly nations, both Christian Orthodox suffering under the Ottoman Empire, allied during most wars, etc. The serbians wont like being called greeks but they will hate it less than others.
And we can always change it to “romioi”, ie “romans”(of the greek variety, Eastern Roman Empire aka Byzantine Empire). The serbians and others in the region would be more cool with that.
Romioi is even used in modern greek(mostly in literature) as equivalent of “greek”. Romaioi is the term for the Latin romans.
With Bulgarians it’s enough telling them that those ignorant Westerners can’t distinguish between Greeks and Thracians. Something similar could work with Romanian about Dacians. With Serbs I don’t see this working - it would mean they are Macedonian, and I don’t see how they could swallow that.
How about we call that quadrant Ottomans instead?
I see we have a volunteer for the suicide mission of telling the Greeks that
Non-Roman Romania
Poland is split into halfes between Germanics and Slavs – checks out. France is split in the middle, so now paris is Germanic – bro, what?
It might surprise you to learn where the word France comes from
EDIT: Also, interestingly, Paris is named after a Celtic tribe. Celtic isn’t Germanic, but normally gets lumped together. Celtic tribes actually predate Germanic ones in what’s now France.
Celtic tribes predate Germanic settlement in southern Germany and Austria as well. The Celtic culture also originates in the Hallstatt culture named after a town in Austria where salt mining has been going on since that time. The Helvetii were also a Celtic tribe in what is now Switzerland.
The Balkans are quite Greek in their dislike for each other.
I didn’t know that they went on 10 year warlord campaigns on the other edge of their region for the hand of a woman
