Genuinely baffles me as a Greek. Every time we did do history (even though it’s taught poorly as heck) we did get it through our heads that the divide of the Roman empire into two was willing so… why is there such a controversy that they’re two different things? In my opinion the Greeks and Italians are one people already with small variations but that’s not really important for this question specifically
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