stopped speaking?
The Eastern Empire never spoke Latin. There was always a cultural divide.
The Eastern Empire never spoke Latin. There was always a cultural divide.
Not to mention that according to the article, that eastern Roman Empire also called itself Romania.
Romania's longing to Roman history is mostly a nation building effort. Romania was a buffer territory between the Ottomans, Habsburgs (austria-hungary) and Huns for many centuries. It was so hard to get people to live there, because there would always come an army to torch everything to the ground. They lured Germans to live there and civilize the country in return for city rights.
In Egypt for example the Ptolemaic dynasty spoke Greek (Cleopatra was the first to even learn Egyptian) and it was still widely used in Roman times.
"The Western Empire never spoke Latin."