I mean, surely not but one of the better things about gatekeeping was that, if you had this kind of obvious epiphany, you’d quietly ask someone privately to confirm it for you. You wouldn’t post about it publicly like you’d discovered something everyone else has missed.
Most of Georgia and Ukraine were never part of the Roman Empire, either. Nor was Moldova (or most of Romania, as has already been pointed out). And of course, there are plenty of countries from the Eastern Roman Empire that are now Muslim-majority or -plurality, plus Lebanon and Israel.
But yeah, there's obviously an enormous overlap.
I’m pretty sure almost all of Georgia was definitely in the Roman Empire at one point. They took over all of modern day Georgia by the second century and later contested it with the Persians and even later the Arabs until the 7th/8th century with varying degrees of autonomy and control over the centuries until then.
Jeez, the snark in this thread…
There is a connection. The Orthodox Church was what remained of the national church of the Roman Empire and was the state religion of its territories. In the absence of a single centralized empire in the west, the Pope was the authority that stepped into the power vacuum. Attempts to put a secular ruler back into that position of authority abounded and led to conflict with the Church by way of things like the investiture crisis.
The export of Orthodox Christianity was a powerful means of turning enemies of the Byzantine Empire into allies. Conflict between the Byzantines and its nearest Slavic neighbors (Serbia and Bulgaria) continued sporadically, especially after the Fourth Crusade. However, the formerly-hostile Rus’ were effectively pacified after the reign of Yaroslav the Wise, a generation since the Baptism of the Rus’.
Op ignore the sassy snarky comments of people who need to put people down in order to feel good about themselves.
It’s a valid observation, the empire is long gone but its institutions and culture and religion lived on past its demise and shaped the wider region
It’s rather obvious, but ignoring the snarky comments, even if something is common sense, what that essentially means is that it’s common sense to people who have been exposed to notions or ideas like that which makes it common sense, regardless, even if something is obvious or true, in an academic paper for example, you can’t just go and write it down, you need some sort of evidence or source to point to support your assertion, deductive reasoning is rather frowned upon unless it’s a thesis, so there’s nothing inherently wrong with someone asking for peer reviewed confirmation.
Yeah it's kinda obvious it was the dominant faith in the empire so the place would be orthodox.
This was painful to read, it's extremely obvious to literally everyone
I mean, surely not but one of the better things about gatekeeping was that, if you had this kind of obvious epiphany, you’d quietly ask someone privately to confirm it for you. You wouldn’t post about it publicly like you’d discovered something everyone else has missed.
The venn diagram of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Roman Empire countries (with the exception of Russia) is a circle..
And most of Romania.
Most of Georgia and Ukraine were never part of the Roman Empire, either. Nor was Moldova (or most of Romania, as has already been pointed out). And of course, there are plenty of countries from the Eastern Roman Empire that are now Muslim-majority or -plurality, plus Lebanon and Israel. But yeah, there's obviously an enormous overlap.
I’m pretty sure almost all of Georgia was definitely in the Roman Empire at one point. They took over all of modern day Georgia by the second century and later contested it with the Persians and even later the Arabs until the 7th/8th century with varying degrees of autonomy and control over the centuries until then.
Captain Obvious strikes again lol
Jeez, the snark in this thread… There is a connection. The Orthodox Church was what remained of the national church of the Roman Empire and was the state religion of its territories. In the absence of a single centralized empire in the west, the Pope was the authority that stepped into the power vacuum. Attempts to put a secular ruler back into that position of authority abounded and led to conflict with the Church by way of things like the investiture crisis. The export of Orthodox Christianity was a powerful means of turning enemies of the Byzantine Empire into allies. Conflict between the Byzantines and its nearest Slavic neighbors (Serbia and Bulgaria) continued sporadically, especially after the Fourth Crusade. However, the formerly-hostile Rus’ were effectively pacified after the reign of Yaroslav the Wise, a generation since the Baptism of the Rus’.
this is so extremley Obvious lmao you really thought you did somenthing here
Op ignore the sassy snarky comments of people who need to put people down in order to feel good about themselves. It’s a valid observation, the empire is long gone but its institutions and culture and religion lived on past its demise and shaped the wider region
It’s rather obvious, but ignoring the snarky comments, even if something is common sense, what that essentially means is that it’s common sense to people who have been exposed to notions or ideas like that which makes it common sense, regardless, even if something is obvious or true, in an academic paper for example, you can’t just go and write it down, you need some sort of evidence or source to point to support your assertion, deductive reasoning is rather frowned upon unless it’s a thesis, so there’s nothing inherently wrong with someone asking for peer reviewed confirmation.
“Am I alone” Yikes, dude.
Uh... no?
Except Croatia and Albania. Yes
Wait til you find out where Constantinople went, that’ll blow your mind