The History Media on Instagram: "Historians love to debate when Rome actually “fell.” Some say 476 AD, when the last Western Roman emperor was deposed. Others argue 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans. But for many Greeks, Rome didn’t “fall” at all — it transformed. The Byzantine Empire called itself the Roman Empire until its very last breath, and even centuries later, Orthodox Christians in the Balkans still referred to themselves as Romans (Rhomaioi). That’s why in 1912, when Greec