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Former countries in the Balkans
Byzantine EmpireThe citizens of the Eastern Roman Empire never called themselves Byzantines. They called themselves Romans, and their state was simply the Roman Empire.
Ottoman EmpireIn the year 1302, a single battle at Bapheus transformed a minor tribal leader into the architect of an empire that would outlast Rome itself.