What is the difference between the Byzantines and the Romans? What caused historians to label them as different if they didn’t consider themselves as separate? And why were they given the name Byzantine?

by akacodlover

I’m not very knowledgable on the later Roman period and the Byzantines and want to know more.

WelfOnTheShelf

We get this question pretty often! Here is a previous answer I wrote about for a similar question:

Why is it called the Byzantine Empire when the city was known as Constantinople for centuries longer than it was called Byzantium?