After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, how much Byzantine/Roman "nationalism" (for lack of a better word) was there in the region? When did the people living in the region stop thinking of themselves as Byzantines/Romans and start thinking as themselves as Greeks?

by jbkjbk2310

I realise that using the term nationalism to describe basically anything before the 17-1800s is rather iffy. I mean how much of a Roman "identitity" or seperatist/restorationist sentiment was there in Greece after the Byzantines fell?

FlavivsAetivs

There has been a prior discussion on this which can be found here, answered by /u/The_Turk2

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2vbutj/after_constantinople_fell_when_did_the_greeks/

The answer they provide is basically, the term Roman still has not fallen out of use amongst the Greeks - "Rhomaios" or "Roman" is still used casually and there are isolated pockets in Greece (and Turkey) which still call themselves Romans.

But for the most part a Hellenic identity was invented in the 19th century.