Byzantine empire was Greek?

[TheForeigner]

In it's golden age the Byzantine or East Roman Empire was vast and multiethnic. We know that in the 7th century Greek became the official language, but were the emperors and elite all Greek or were they as multiethnic as the empire?

[gültekin]

East Roman Empire, later hellenized by a tricky way as usual

[Trilecce]

In it's golden age the Byzantine or East Roman Empire was vast and multiethnic. We know that in the 7th century Greek became the official language, but were the emperors and elite all Greek or were they as multiethnic as the empire?

Mono-ethnic nations are relatively new and were unknown in concept prior to 19th century.

[Pennywise]

Not originally Greek but later Greekizied.

[Scholarios]

All empires were multi-ethnic. The Byzantine Empire was as Greek as the Middle Kingdom was Chinese ( with a Manchu, Mongol, Uighur as " Son of heaven" it's not hard to imagine. )

This topic has about 10 threads in the past year. You'll get nowhere in a thread like this.

[Thanas Django]

East Roman Empire, later hellenized by a tricky way as usual

Please let us in on more details about "the tricky way" it was greekified.

[LoLeL]

One of the most popular stories on TA... Unending...

[Fantomas]

East Roman Empire, later hellenized by a tricky way as usual

Actully Eastern part of Roman Empire was the homeland of Hellenism.

[Voskos]

all i know is the guy who liberated my island from the arabs was an armenian emperor

[Ujku]

No it was not Greek.