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How come the Greeks, who defined themselves in opposition to everyone else (the barbarians, that originally included the Romans), ended up calling themselves Romans for many centuries, including during all of the Middle Ages? Did they lost their identification as "Hellenic" people during this time?

by /u/uw888 in /r/AskHistorians

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